Sentences with phrase «plant genes»

This behavior was associated with one specific plant gene, coding for a protein with unknown function.

Axel Diederichsen, curator of Plant Gene Resources of Canada in Saskatoon, says the new study's effort to document and map missing wild diversity is valuable.

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

While previous research had identified the presence of feed forward loops in plant gene regulation, «this study increases the scale enormously,» said Bartley.

«Through our research we discovered that defense against extracellular pathogens (ETD) involves different plant genes from those involved in the defense against intracellular pathogens.

Many of these eukaryotic genes resemble plant genes — hinting that Chlamydia's ancestors may have first parasitized plantlike microorganisms.

ScienceInsider will have coverage Wednesday from Moscow on a crucial case on Russia's plant gene bank near St. Petersburg.

The researchers fixed the problem by reengineering the inserted plant gene.

The microbe is particularly well suited for testing the functions of individual plant genes because bacterial DNA disrupts the genome at the point of insertion.

Identification and Characterization of Plant Genes Involved in Agrobacterium - Mediated Plant Transformation by Virus - Induced Gene Silencing

BIOTECHNOLOGY is up in court next week, when a lay jury of 16 members of the British public will deliver its verdict on the rights and wrongs of tinkering with plant genes.

The chances of a bug swallowing up and keeping a functioning plant gene in the absence of any selective pressure to do so is vanishingly small.

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

Dale's team is also looking at how gene insertion itself may alter transgenic plants, for example by disrupting the expression of endogenous plant genes close to the location of the insertion.

Infecting a Plant to Save a Human To avoid the problems that come with altering plant genes, other researchers are investigating a plant - based technique that does not fundamentally change a plant's DNA.

«Drought - resistant plant genes could accelerate evolution of water - use efficient crops.»

But where fossil hunters have failed, molecular botanists studying plant genes may have succeeded.

Dangl intends to greatly expand his efforts to understand which plant genes are involved in setting up microbe communities associated with roots.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that a cellular mechanism preferentially protects plant genes from the damaging effects of mutation.

Martonvásár Development of new generic plant genotypes to satisfy the needs of the future, based on an internationally acknowledged plant gene pool, and using up - to - date genetic, physiological, cell and reproduction biological, functional genomic, biotechnological, plant breeding and crop production methods.

PPI does not introduce any foreign matter or genes into our technologies, instead modified genes typically exhibit increased or reduced levels of expression compared to the unmodified plant gene.

She also mentioned that there might be more risk from editing plant genes than from editing human genes [source: Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society].

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

These experiments showed that lines carrying Lr2BS alone, and in combination with other APR genes were susceptible at the seedling stage, which suggests that Lr2BS is an adult plant gene.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

«Shade coffee farms allow birds and bats to move and disperse seeds throughout the coffee landscape, promoting plant gene flow,» said Shalene Jha, a graduate student whose interests in insects led her to studying shade - grown coffee farms.

Two years later the same court found a patent directed at a modified plant gene was infringed by a farmer who was making the higher life forms (plants)(Monsanto Canada v Schmeiser 2004 SCC 34 at 22 - 23).

«There is a great urgency to safeguard crop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene banks.

Through a combination of genetic crosses, gene expression assays, metabolite profiling, and insect growth experiments, we are able to identify specific plant genes, biosynthetic pathways, and metabolites that are required to mount an effective anti-herbivore defense.

Internationally acclaimed by academic and industrial agricultural leaders, our technologies are based on modifying the native expression of individual plant genes to produce high value traits.

She has held a postdoctoral appointment as a research geneticist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, Calif., and conducted research for Calgene, a California - based biotechnology company.

Synthetic biologists had previously engineered yeast to produce artemisinin, an antimalarial compound, but that required inserting just a handful of plant genes.

He took the plant gene for the protein and inserted it into yeast, then fed the modified yeast sugars and nutrients to stimulate fermentation.

Previous to this research, plant genes were studied by cutting up plants, killing the cells and fixing them to glass slides.

Opperdoes and his colleagues found that the parasite's DNA harbors at least 16 plant genes, including one that codes for an enzyme that plants use to produce sugar via photosynthesis.

They also inserted a plant gene that makes an enzyme that converted these precursors into a compound resembling cholesterol, a progesterone precursor.

One of the several they identified resembles a plant gene called LEA that's also turned on by desiccation.

For this purpose, they planted genes for enzyme synthesis into the microorganisms.

Thanks to a plant gene that it licensed from Mendel Biotechnology, a prime R&D contractor with Monsanto Co., ArborGen's freeze - tolerant eucalyptuses have been grown in much colder conditions up into the Carolinas.

«Agrobacterium can be used to insert a piece of DNA in the middle of a plant gene, thus inactivating the gene,» says Derek W. Wood, who led part of the University of Washington project.

Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics also includes:

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

The plant genes responsible for contributing these peptides in wheat gluten are located on the third set of chromosomes that the hexaploid variants inherited from their wild parent.