Sentences with phrase «plant cells using»

Previous work by Professor Bassel and Dr Johnston has identified how plants cells use hormones to communicate, to assess environmental conditions around them and optimise the time when they begin germination.

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Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

While startups like Impossible Foods are focused on developing plant - based alternatives to the proteins that give meat its flavor, Future Meat Technologies and Memphis Meats are trying to use animal cells themselves to grow meat, rather than basically harvesting it from dead animals.

- Chlorella is a single - celled freshwater green plant used as a whole food nutritional supplement.

Cell fusion technology is used to hybridize plants by removing cell walls from two cells of different species, usually those that would not normally breed under natural conditions, and then merging their conteCell fusion technology is used to hybridize plants by removing cell walls from two cells of different species, usually those that would not normally breed under natural conditions, and then merging their contecell walls from two cells of different species, usually those that would not normally breed under natural conditions, and then merging their contents.

Diana Plant Sciences will explore the use of plant cell technology to produce sustainable food ingrediPlant Sciences will explore the use of plant cell technology to produce sustainable food ingrediplant cell technology to produce sustainable food ingredients.

Alternative protein sources may include the use of by - products currently viewed as waste or the development of new protein sources from plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.

First, the interns will gather information about research institutions, academic researchers, and companies conducting work in adjacent research areas (e.g. cell therapy company) who are currently using technologies that are applicable to plant - based and clean meat research or food technology.

Plants use two different transport systems, both of which are rows of cells which form tubes around the plant..

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

Syringae uses ice crystals to rip open the cells of plants that are not frost tolerant, so it can devour their nutrients.

The plant compounds used by the UGA researchers — resveratrol, found in grapes; genistein, found in soybeans; and quercetin, found in apple peels and onions — have all been shown in previous studies to be fat - busters, causing fat cells to burst and release their contents.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Microbes living in oxygen - rich environments use enzymes floating free inside their cells to digest such plant matter.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

Plants grown from these cells make abnormal versions of messenger RNA, the molecule used to make the proteins.

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

The Arabidopsis thaliana plant root, used in these studies, is a quite simple organ, in which cells with different functions are separated.

Researchers have discovered that, like plants and invertebrate animals, mammals use the RNA interference (RNAi) process to destroy viruses within their own cells.

Cells in most animals and plants use short - interfering RNA (siRNA) segments to inhibit the formation of viral proteins; here siRNA designed to target IAPV would be fed to colonies as part of double - stranded RNA mixed into a syrup.

Using next - generation sequencing technologies that were previously unavailable, Michael Gardner, a graduate research assistant, and Jianying Wang, a senior research associate in Mitchum's lab, made a remarkable new discovery — nematodes possess the ability to produce a second type of peptide that can effectively «take over» plant stem cells that are used to create vital pathways for the delivery of nutrients throughout the plant.

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

Next, the team «knocked out» the genes Arabidopsis plants use to signal to their own stem cells.

A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding.

Researchers at Tohoku University have found that plants activate autophagy in their leaf cells to derive amino acids that are used for survival under energy - starved «hunger» conditions.

The Grieneisen lab uses the reference plant Arabidopsis and computer models to focus on the misshapen misfits called pavement cells that make up the surface of plant leaves.

After removing the solids from incoming wastewater, treatment plants use microbes — tiny single - celled organisms — to decompose organic matter that comes in the sewage.

«I thought about electricity because you can optimise the magnitude and exposure time of the current,» says Cuello, adding that the current he and colleagues used wouldn't be enough to electrocute a human and doesn't burn the plant's cells.

Ultimately, though, concentrated solar power plants must compete on price with photovoltaic power plants that convert sunlight directly into electricity, using solar cells.

«Being in the Mix Lab (special labs that have researchers from different disciplines mixed together) at ITbM, I was able to talk to an organic chemist, Masakazu Nambo, who suggested the use of triarylmethane compounds for cell division inhibition in plant cells,» she continues.

To show their program's promise beyond plant roots, the researchers also used it with a different microscope to watch groups of cells move around in growing zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos.

«Our palladium - catalyzed sequential arylation reaction has been highly useful to rapidly synthesize a variety of triarylmethanes to be used for testing their effect on the cell division in plants,» says Nambo.

A study developed by researchers of the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with the Unit for Plant Genomics Research of Evry, France (URGV, in French) has discovered a new way of improving the longevity of plant seeds using genetic engineePlant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with the Unit for Plant Genomics Research of Evry, France (URGV, in French) has discovered a new way of improving the longevity of plant seeds using genetic engineePlant Genomics Research of Evry, France (URGV, in French) has discovered a new way of improving the longevity of plant seeds using genetic engineeplant seeds using genetic engineering.

Sadoway said a demonstration plant is still about three years away, but the systems would be analogous to cells used to extract aluminum.

Following cultivation of Arabidopsis seedlings on a culture medium containing a high concentration of cesium carbonate, Cesium Green was applied to the seedlings, and the resulting green fluorescence observed was used to confirm the presence of cesium within the plants» cells.

The patented technique uses microscopic crystals of silicon carbide to punch holes in plant cells so that foreign DNA can enter.

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.

«We make a science - based risk assessment [of a product], and if it's safe we use it and if it's unsafe, we don't,» Stefan Jansson, a professor of plant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mplant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mPlant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last month.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

Using ACME, the authors demonstrated that cells in the stems of seedlings exhibit a gradient of mechanical properties in the presence of the plant growth hormone gibberellic acid.

Furthermore, they used their versatile system to show that stretching induces irreversible increases in cell length in living plant cells, but that the increases in cell length are partially reversed in dead plant tissues once stretching stops.

Their approach could lead to improvements in longevity for alloys used in fossil fuel plants, bridges, pipelines, fuel cells, and many other applications.

Plant molecular biologists Fumiyuki Goto, Toshihiro Yoshihara, and their colleagues first isolated the ferritin gene from soybean sprouts, and then used a soil bacterium to transfer the gene into the DNA of rice cells.

In the U.S., Xcel Energy plans to build a relatively modest eight - megawatt solar power plant in Colorado next year using similar concentrated solar cells as well as other technology.

Instead of permanently deleting the Plk4 gene from the cells, they used a trick from plant biology to toggle its presence in the cells — one that had never before been applied to an animal cell's proteins.

He says it is conceivable that special sugar molecules could be used to block the Cytolysin toxin, preventing it from docking onto vulnerable plant cells.

ASPB further grants to authors the permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of a work published in Plant Physiology ® or The Plant Cell without fee for personal or classroom use.

The cells of slime moulds, however, are more like animal cells in that their walls are less defined than plants; yet they also reproduce using spores, like plants.

«The reason why this has been difficult was because there was not an efficient method to visualize the dynamics of cell division using the living zygote hiding deep inside the plants,» she continues.