Sentences with phrase «plant evolution researchers»

Michael Donoghue and Erika Edwards, plant evolution researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, analyzed water conservation mechanisms in the cactus genus Pereskia, an assortment of leafy shrubs and trees that are thought to represent the ancestral state of living cacti.

It's «a wonderful study» which demonstrates that the evolution of water conservation «set the stage for the loss of leaves and the evolution of succulence,» says David Ackerly, a plant evolution researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Not exact matches

Using a variety of plants, animals, and microbes, the researchers will study the possibility that organisms can influence their own evolution and that inheritance can take place through routes other than the genetic material.

The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.

Lead researcher Dr Morgan Beeby said: «We are used to observing evolution at the scale of animals or plants, such as the giraffe's neck slowly getting longer over time to reach previously inaccessible food.

A new study by researchers from the Institute of Evolution and Ecology reveals that plants can evaluate the competitive ability of their neighbors and optimally match their responses to them.

«There was a major gap for researchers using genomic DNA sequences to understand the evolution of species complexes,» says Ryan Folk, lead author of a study in a recent issue Applications in Plant Sciences.

Digging into corn's genetic past The new picture that has emerged of the plant also helps researchers better understand its evolution and history.

So researchers are putting forth the radical proposal that plants contain an inheritable cache of RNA that can reverse evolution, undoing mutations and restoring a gene to its former glory.

the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley genome that are important in the context of genome evolution and for practical use of genome knowledge by plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination

Researchers from Princeton University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have posed a theory of plant evolution based on root adaptations that allowed plants to become more efficient and independent.

The extensive data the researchers used allowed them to explore the evolution of plant roots to an extent never before possible, Lu said.

Other researchers have looked beyond changes in behavior or physical features for «parallel evolution» in the genes, finding, for instance, that different insects alter the same DNA to help them feed on toxic plants.

A team of Belgian biologists led by researchers at KU Leuven has provided the first genetic evidence that rapid evolution can help non-native plant species spread in new environments.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

(PhysOrg.com)-- Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants.

In a paper published today (July 10) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers have shown that a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant's protections can encourage beet armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera exigua) to cannibalize other caterpillars.

Researchers at the Center work on a wide variety of applications, including autism, cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, gene regulation and evolution.

Some researchers have proposed similar events in the evolution of plants and vertebrates.