Sentences with phrase «plant geneticist»

A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has identified a protein receptor on stem cells involved in plant development that can issue different instructions about how to grow depending on what peptide (protein fragment) activates it.

«It's extremely gratifying,» says plant geneticist Ian Armstead of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Aberystwyth, Wales, lead author of a report on the findings in this week's Science.

Practical experience of plant geneticists reveals that most insertions of new DNA in plant chromosome have little effect on other genes (Bouché and Bouchez 2001).

One day when he was an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario, Friedberg waylaid plant geneticist David Walden in the hallway.

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

We're offering the career perspective with the current article, as well as «Plant Geneticist Cultivating a Future for Peanut Farming in Uganda,» a profile of David Kalule Okello, one of Uganda's most promising weapons in the battle against hunger.

Syrian plant geneticist Hamdi Alsaffouri was able to get a position at Austria's Research Center for Forests after his academic home in Damascus was destroyed.

But plant geneticist Norman Borlaug developed a high - yield, disease - resistant dwarf wheat that boosted global agricultural production — the Green Revolution.

Low - level cyanide poisoning is a problem in some regions, like Africa, where cassava is often poorly processed, agrees plant geneticist Wilhelm Gruissem of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland.

«Canola is one of the more problematic in terms of gene flow,» says plant geneticist Rikke Jørgensen of the Riso National Laboratory in Denmark.

Barbara Schaal, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, with an expertise in plant geneticist.

Plant geneticist Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi and her colleagues at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board in Selangor have been trying to understand why supposedly identical trees don't all produce equally good fruit for 30 years.

In the paper, plant geneticists Anna Stepanova and Jose Alonso show that ethylene triggers a process that begins, but doesn't complete, one of the cell's most basic functions — gene expression.

[That] fits with the idea that multicellularity evolved separately [in plants and animals],» says plant geneticist Robert Martienssen of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

So another member of the group, plant geneticist Mary Lou Guerinot, decided to take a closer look.

That's why plant pathologist John Helgeson and plant geneticist Jiming Jiang of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues decided to try genetic engineering instead.

Plant geneticist Catherine Feuillet of INRA - UBP in Clermont - Ferrand, France, and her colleagues have isolated one of wheat's 42 chromosomes and made a physical map of it, placing more than 1400 molecular landmarks along its 995 million bases.

Plant geneticist Amy Iezzoni of Michigan State University in Lansing agrees.

This is the result of a cooperation project of behavioral ecologist Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) with plant geneticists Birgit Ziegenhagen and Ronald Bialozyt from the Philipps - University Marburg.

«This is a great study,» says plant geneticist Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo.

Plant geneticist Agnès Ricroch coauthored several review papers assessing GMO safety, including a 2012 paper examining the long - term health of animals fed GM corn, potatoes, soybeans, rice and the grain triticale, a cross between wheat and rye.

The goal, says plant geneticist Tom Carruthers of the University of Oxford, was to «gain insight into the origins of the sweet potato — when it arose, where it arose and how it arose.»

A new discovery, spearheaded by Cornell and University of Illinois plant geneticists and published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Science, could change all that.

The research group led by Halle - based plant geneticist Professor Ulla Bonas has been investigating the interaction between pathogenic bacteria and plants for quite some time.

And according to plant geneticist Jérôme Giraudat of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Gif - sur - Yvette, France, «this counter intuitive observation adds important new knowledge of protein kinase signaling.»

Denby couldn't steal the genes directly from hops, because plant geneticists don't know which snippets of hops DNA code for those flavor molecules.

Cornell professor and plant geneticist Susan McCouch advocates turning to the power of nature:

A brilliant plant geneticist bridging the debate between organics and GMOs.

Tim Helentjaris, plant geneticist at the University of Arizona, testified that DNA from the pods perfectly matched DNA from one of the trees (This Week, 29 May).

Plant geneticist David Stern of Cornell University agrees, adding that the team's database of Chlamy RNA sequences will likely provide a major resource for RNA research in the organism.

Plant geneticist Peter Quail of the University of California, Berkeley, says the process is unexpectedly simple: There could easily have been a dozen regulators between cryptochromes and COP1, he says.

Although their research has been performed in a weed called «Arabidopsis thaliana», the work horse of plant geneticists, the team is confident that their discovery can be used for the protection of crops from their enemies.

An allied U.S. group called the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) tried for several years to write a similar binding license but concluded in 2014 that it was too unwieldy to gain widespread acceptance among breeders and seed companies, says plant geneticist and OSSI Executive Director Claire Luby of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Martin Fregene, a plant geneticist and the director of the BioCassava Plus Program.

As a plant geneticist, attending this conference helped me to have better understanding about the food waste and loss in the world and new areas that I can apply my expertise to help improve food security in the world.

«Those levels of stress might vary within even a single seed,» says Peggy Ozias - Akins, a plant geneticist and peanut expert at the University of Georgia.

Hamdi Alsaffouri, 34, a plant geneticist from Syria who participated in the Science in Asylum seminars, has written his paper based on data from his doctoral thesis about cotton breeding.

«I think it's an important step forward, although I think it is a baby step,» says Joseph Ecker, a plant geneticist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., who was not involved in the work.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

«The biosafety study that has been carried out is as thorough as it can be, and now ideology should not overwhelm scientific evidence,» says Deepak Pental, a plant geneticist at the University of Delhi here who developed the GM variety.

Plant geneticists are eager to try out the mutant receptor gene.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

Rocheford, a plant geneticist at Purdue, drew the attention of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for his research on variations affecting provitamin A carotenoids — naturally occurring plant pigments that our bodies can convert to vitamin A — in maize.

The last piece of the poppy puzzle is now in hand: Plant geneticists have isolated the gene in the plant that carries out the last unknown step in converting glucose and other simple compounds into codeine, morphine, and a wide variety of other medicines.

Britain risks losing its considerable lead in the plant breeding technology of the future unless it increases its spending, according to plant geneticists.

asks Maarten Chrispeels, a plant geneticist at the University of California at San Diego.

Plant geneticists are busy identifying dozens of stretches of DNA that help determine the size, shape, color, scent, flowering characteristics, and longevity of various plants.

But a plant geneticist at Purdue University aims to raise the corn plant's stature in a more carbon - sensitive world by lowering its height and its need for water and nutrients.

Plant geneticists have figured out how to almost double the production of garden tomatoes.