Sentences with phrase «plant geneticist at»

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

While you're busy decking the halls with boughs of holly this season, geneticists, plant pathologists and forestry professors are hard at work making better Christmas trees for the future.

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 results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

The new information, published in The Plant Journal, will not only expand geneticists» knowledge of barley's DNA but will also help in the understanding, at the genetic level, of wheat and other sources of food.

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

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

And the species» struggle to adapt and survive can make attempts to control the fertility of plants difficult, according to Steve Strauss, a tree geneticist at Oregon State University who has also consulted with ArborGen.

Collaborators on GOBii include Susan McCouch and Mark Sorrells, professors of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University; Qi Sun, a senior research associate at Cornell's Computational Biology Service Unit; and Ed Buckler and Jean Luc Jannink, geneticists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

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.