Sentences with phrase «plant evolution study»

Guardian Express: Plant evolution study shows how some plants prevent freezing.

A new plant evolution study shows scientists how some plants have evolved in order to prevent freezing.

So in reality, this plant evolution study is just the beginning of learning how plants prevent freezing, other environmental challenges, including predator protection theories.

Not exact matches

That would cure you of your misconceptions, and I'd also recommend actually studying college level Evolution and comparative Plant & Animal Form & Function.

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 scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

Sitting at the edge of the Patagonian Shelf, in an area rich in marine resources, the Falklands are a unique natural laboratory in which to study sustainable fisheries, global climate change, coastal erosion, and plant and animal evolution.

Ecologists have recently begun to discuss climate relicts as potential «natural laboratories» for studying the evolution of single plant species.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

David Hibbett of Clark University, another of the study's senior authors, compared the work to a previous collaboration with the DOE JGI detailed in Science to trace the evolution of white rot fungi, which are capable of breaking down cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plants.

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.

A new study of cactus evolution suggests that the plant's water - saving strategies might have come first, followed only later by dramatic changes in the plant's anatomy.

A joint University of Adelaide - Shanghai Jiao Tong University study has provided the first broad picture of the evolution and possible functions in the plant of pollen allergens.

In addition to its utility in retrospective studies of the evolution of flowering plants, the Amborella genome sequence offers insights into the history and conservation of Amborella populations.

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.

This work and studies of flowering plants, which are also quite diverse, is forcing a rethink about just how genome duplications influence evolution.

«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.

The new study's results «imply constraints on the available routes to evolve plant carnivory,» the authors write in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative, the study suggests that «to understand the evolution of plant traits, you also need to look at extinct herbivores and their interactions with the plants.»

Chitwood has now crossed his passions for plants and stringed instruments by publishing a study that documents the evolution of violin shapes using the same methods that he uses for charting the evolving form of leaves.

These results matched up with Gillman's earlier study on plant evolution, as well as with independent research on cold - blooded animals.

The fossil find, an ancient relative of today's bleeding hearts, poses a new puzzle in the study of plant evolution: did Earth's dominant group of flowering plants evolve along with its distinctive pollen?

Settling the debate over the first flower will take a bigger database and more - sophisticated models, says Wenheng Zhang, who studies plant evolution at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

The future will be using these tools combined with large shared data sets to test fundamental hypotheses about the evolution and distribution of plants and animals,» says Dr. Laurence J. Dorr, Chair of the Smithsonian Department of Botany and co-author of the study.

In the new study, Hervé Sauquet of the Université Paris - Sud in Orsay, France, and colleagues combined models of flower evolution with a database of features for 792 species of flowering plants, and data from the fossil record.

«The pattern of co-occurring species remained stable through the evolution of land organisms from the earliest tetrapods through dinosaurs, flowering plants and mammals,» said Anna K. Behrensmeyer, a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and a co-author of the study.

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.

«This Biodiversity Library includes information on bacteria that are model microorganisms for studying photosynthesis, carbon and nitrogen assimilation, evolution of plant plastids, and adaptability to environmental stresses.

Advisors: Nicolas Galtier and Nicolas Bierne 2007 - 2010: PhD, Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales, University of Lille 1 Title: «Study of trans - specific polymorphism between two closely related plant species, Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata: evaluation of the relative impacts of demography and natural selection» Supervisors: Xavier Vekemans and Vincent Castric 2005 - 2007: Master in plant physiology, metabolism and development.

The sequencing studies, reported in the December 16, 1999, issue of the journal Nature, provide a great deal of new information about chromosome structure, evolution, and gene organization in plants.

Moreover, the data can serve as a basis for studies concerning the evolution of signaling mechanisms, as well as can give specific insights into the regulation of basic cellular processes such as polar cell growth, cell expansion, plant morphogenesis and the plants responses to fungal pathogens.

As such plant characterisation modelling studies making use of climatic and topographical data within time series makes use of the state of evolution of plants to infer the state of the climate.

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Basically, the fossils are researched on this subject so that the evolution of the organisms and plants can be studied and saved for the future references.

Şekercioğlu first started gathering material in 2003, but the work went into high gear after he recruited collaborators specializing in everything from microbes to plants to climate to insects at a December 2009 workshop of Turks studying ecology and evolution abroad.