Sentences with phrase «plant gene expression»

Previously a Principal Investigator at the USDA / ARS - UC - Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center; research focused on the molecular biology of plant reproduction.

rich, full - colour illustrations and diagrams clearly showing important processes in plant gene expression;

Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of plant gene expression.

He attended UC Berkley and Sonoma State University where he studied Cell Biology and worked at the USDA Plant Gene Expression Center.

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When the team induced expression of the corresponding gene in the leaves of two other plant species (one closely related to S. lycopersicum and the other more distantly related), both plants reacted to presence of the C. reflexa peptide with increased production of ethylene, and exhibited increased resistance to C. reflexa infestation.

However, microgravity can reduce cell growth, alter gene expression and change the pattern of root growth — all aspects which critically affect plant cultivation in space.

Sure enough, plant root cells that harbor fungal arbuscules increase their expression of genes involved in producing such lipids by 3000-fold.

«You can put genes into plants to study gene expression, physiology, morphology, and development,» Brown notes.

Therefore, using the model plant Arabidopsis, they extended the expression time of WRI1, a gene that activates oil synthesis.

This research tool can be used to better understand the function of histone proteins, which play critical roles in the regulation of gene expression in animals and plants.

Both companies are also exploring RNA interference (RNAi) technology — the use of RNA molecules to inhibit gene expression — to prevent plant diseases.

In previous studies, Chen - Yu Zhang's group has reported a striking finding that plant miRNAs are ingested from plant diets and pass through the gastrointestinal tract, enter into the blood, accumulate in tissues and regulate endogenous gene expression in animals.

While miRNAs are generally negative regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes, they also negatively regulate larval development when honeybee larvae consume beebread / pollen and take up plant miRNAs.

These changes in gene expression can help explain instances in which the yield is unaffected, but a slight reduction has taken place in the plant which scientists can not pinpoint.

In short, these changes in gene expression adversely affect the plant's ability to grow and reproduce.

The axiom, «growing like a weed,» takes on new meaning in light of changes in gene expression that occur when weeds interact with the crops they infest, according to plant scientist Sharon Clay.

Next, the researchers look at the effect of water stress on gene expression using corn planted on high and low ground.

In addition, specific genes that influenced photosynthesis and other important plant responses differed in expression.

This is associated with more gene expression underpinning plant respiration.»

Most importantly, plants from the spring sites had differences in the expression of hundreds of genes.

The Plant Signaling investigation and Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) 17 - 1 both study how the plants» gene expressions change in microgravity.

«Linking virus sensing with gene expression, a plant immune system course - corrects.»

For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to crops in the U.S. and worldwide every year, can silence the expression of genes in the host plants from which it obtains water and nutrients.

Plants perform these regulations mainly by regulating nuclear gene expression and multiple intracellular signaling pathways have been shown to play a role in the genomic response of plants to stress, but the processes are not well underPlants perform these regulations mainly by regulating nuclear gene expression and multiple intracellular signaling pathways have been shown to play a role in the genomic response of plants to stress, but the processes are not well underplants to stress, but the processes are not well understood.

He discovered that there is a signal sent from the chloroplast in response to light, which then activates gene expression in the nucleus to make the plant resistant to heat stress.

First, samples of leaves from these plants are collected for in vitro cultures to isolate the fungi; then the DNA and RNA of fungi are extracted to sequence them and, through bioinformatic analysis, the researcher can determine the expression, the presence or absence of genes in the genomes of a species against each other.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

He has been studying differences in gene expression in infected and uninfected plants and finds that the fungus seems to increase the activity of genes involved in seed production.

Until this study, researchers weren't able to manipulate production of the different components independently of each other, since many of the transcription factors, proteins that bind to the plant's DNA and regulate gene expression, are redundant.

Patterns of gene expression in the two kinds of plants confirm the similarity, Hedrich says.

The case for direct interaction was bolstered by similarities between gene expression profiles of plants with various deficiencies in photoreceptors and COP1.

In the last six years, researchers have discovered that these elements control the expression of genes in animals and plants (Science, 26 October 2001, p. 797).

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that play a crucial role in regulating gene expression in animals and plants.

Mendel's regulatory gene controls the expression of other genes that influence cold resistance, and its use represents the state of the art in plant biotech.

They also discovered that in the ripe fruit, the expression of one of these VSC - expressing genes is about 2,000 times stronger than it is in other parts of the plant.

PPI does not introduce any foreign genes into its products; rather it regulates the plant's own genes to increase or decrease expression of the genes responsible for key traits.

«In the short - term, introducing mutations in key genes will be the most wide application of this technology, where the aim is to kill DNA, avoiding the expression of toxic proteins, or introducing mutations in genes to make crops more resistant to diseases, or genes which limit crop adaptability, and to develop androsterile plants for hybrid production.

He used the GM method to make discoveries about what regulates gene expression in GM plants, and about plant transposable DNA.

We focus on developing computational methods and tools for (a) analyzing large - scale gene expression data related to human cancer in search for gene markers and disease sub-categories, (b) identifying regulatory elements such as miRNA precursors and their targets in whole genomes of plants and mammals, (c) building theoretical models of gene regulatory networks.

-LSB-...] Back in December, I wrote about two studies that compared global patterns of gene expression between germ cells and somatic cells in Volvox carteri, one by Benjamin Klein, Daniel Wibberg and Armin Hallmann from the University of Bielefeld in Germany and one by Gavriel Matt and Jim Umen from Washington University in St. Louis and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, respectively.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

By increasing the expression of those genes, the scientists saw increases of 14 - 20 percent in the productivity of modified tobacco plants in field experiments.

This work provides evidence that a GRAS protein transduces calcium signals in plants and provides a possible regulator of Nod - factor - inducible gene expression.

Collectively, these results indicate that our synthetic sensing gene circuit shows ligand - dependent gene expression in plants.

«We responded to this challenge by proposing to engineer maize viruses, aphids, and leafhoppers such that they can be deployed rapidly to change gene expression in mature maize plants.»

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Members of our lab study gene expression and organelle function in plants and humans.

If there are no negative effects on plant regeneration as a result of either expression or knockout of the gene of interest, and the genotype of interest, then the expected recovery per experiment is five to ten independent transgenic lines.

Pathogen, salicylic acid and developmental dependent expression of a beta -1,3-glucanase / GUS gene fusion in transgenic tobacco plants