Sentences with phrase «plant geneticist jiming»

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

Today's panel consisted of Shelley Boris, a chef committed to conscientious cuisine and author of «Fresh Cooking» (disclosure: she's a friend); Jason J. Czarnezki a professor of environmental law at Pace Law School and co-author of «Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law ``; Pamela Ronald, a plant geneticist and co-author of «Tomorrow's Table»; and Nathanael Johnson, the Grist writer whose 2013 series «Panic - Free GMOs» provided a deep and informative dive on genetics, agriculture and risk.

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

Using state of the art analysis equipment, Agricultural Research Service plant geneticist Roy Navarre has recently identified 60 different kinds of phytochemicals, linked to the prevention of several diseases in the skins and flesh of a wide variety of potatoes.

«Most of what you want to do is to disable genes one at a time,» and then examine what happens to the organism, says David W. Meinke, a plant geneticist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Irina is a plant geneticist.

Clegg, a plant geneticist from the University of California, Irvine, was in Quito for the ceremony, and he lectured on the role of science academies.

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.

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 team led by Kelly Swarts, a plant geneticist then at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, sequenced the genomes of 15 cobs.

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.

This ancestor «started off with a whole new set of duplicate genes,» says Michael Clegg, a plant geneticist at the University California, Irvine, who was not involved with the work.

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.

More than 15 million hectares — an area the size of Bangladesh — is commonly stricken, and the lost rice is enough to feed 30 million people, said Pamela Ronald, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis.

A team led by Robin Allaby, a plant geneticist at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, was looking for the earliest evidence of domesticated plants in the British Isles.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

«The only way to get a real story, the closest we can get, is to sequence nuclear genomes from orchids,» says Victor Albert, a plant geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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).

«For wheat researchers languishing in genomic poverty, this is the beginning of genomic empowerment,» says Bikram Gill, a plant geneticist at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

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

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.

[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.

«If there's no protein, no toxin,» says study coauthor Monica Schmidt, a plant geneticist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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.

The discovery should help growers weed out bad seedlings, making cloning a viable option again, says Jerzy Paszkowski, a plant geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

And other plant researchers are very pleased: «This is a great paper... with great importance to agriculture,» says Steven Jacobsen, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.