Sentences with phrase «plant physiologist»

From 1974 - 1978 he was Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute of the semi-arid tropics in Hyderabad, India, where he is now a consultant.

I am a research plant physiologist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), where I have worked for about 25 years.

Daniel Cosgrove, president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, expects that the sequence data will also speed the identification of genes to improve agriculture and the use of plants as energy sources or for cleaning up the environment.

As an undergraduate at University of Montpellier in France in the early 2000s, Sébastien Granier's interest in science was stoked by the passionate lectures of a renowned plant physiologist who studied the architecture of trees, and tropical forest canopies in particular.

According to Mike Grusak, a research plant physiologist with the USDA - ARS and a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, «besides the protein, fiber, and minerals in the seeds, the leaves of bean plants are also edible.

Moreover, farmers may be able to adapt to many of the changes by altering planting times or the crops they grow, says plant physiologist Jerry Hatfield of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa.

However, when word spread through the department that the federal register was open, all of us filled out the paperwork to have our names put on the federal civil service register as plant physiologists and plant ecologists, without knowing what that accomplished.

Its facilities have been instrumental in building capacity for plant physiologists in the poorer countries of the Andean region, says Trigo.

Put it differently — why should plant physiologists think of positive effect of rising temperature and elevated CO2, without regarding change in preciupitation (which is going to be more and more disrupted)?

In what are called microcosm experiments, plant physiologists study leaves in sealed containers so their gas exchange can be tracked, but that gives information only on the leaf's relationship to the atmosphere, not that of the whole plant, its soil, and other plants and animals.

The study, «Lignite - derived humic substances modulate pepper and soil - biota growth under water deficit stress,» was conducted by AgriLife Research graduate student Kuan Qin in collaboration with center director and plant physiologist Dr. Daniel Leskovar.

It is named after Dr. Lloyd T. Evans, a world - renowned Australian plant physiologist who also once served as a member of the IRRI board of trustees.

Plant physiologist Ian Dodd studies how drought - tolerant plants work, information that's useful for developing sustainable crops in hot countries.

Radboud University's molecular plant physiologists focus on the tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum).

To remedy that absence, Golden's lab, along with plant physiologist Takao Kondo and colleagues at Nagoya University in Japan, developed an easy - to - read gauge of changing photosynthetic activity in colonies of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus, a blue - green alga whose one - celled organisms divide as often as once every 5 to 6 hours.

By going to 300 - meter resolution — closer to the size of fragmented forests and crop fields — FLEX should allow plant physiologists to understand how specific plants respond to different environmental stresses.

The results, described in the 7 March issue of Nature, raise the possibility that nematodes and plants use some of the same equipment to fight drought, says plant physiologist Dorothea Bartels of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany.

Together with plant physiologist Prof. Dr. Stephan Clemens, various mutants of the thale cress were tested in the laboratory to see how they reacted to thioarsenates added to their nutrient solution.

I called plant physiologist Michele Holbrook at Harvard University, a source for the tree story, to give her the bad news.

But plant physiologists do not have the last word in physics.

To transport water from roots up to leaves, trees depend on tension created by the difference in water availability in the soil and the atmosphere, says plant physiologist Lucy Rowland at Exeter.

Working with plant physiologist Heinrich Matthei, Nirenberg developed a system to observe protein synthesis in vitro and was able to demonstrate the existence of mRNA.

Tetracyclines were discovered in the late 1940s by an American plant physiologist named Benjamin Minge Duggar from soil bacteria called actinomycetes.

USDA plant physiologist Julie Wolf and colleagues reevaluated the data that were used to calculate the IPCC 2006 methane emissions estimates.

Plant physiologist Bert Drake created the Smithsonian's Global Change Ecological Research Wetland in 1987 at Edgewater.

1986 Robert Rabson for outstanding service to the science of plant physiology and to the American Society of Plant Physiologists.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

Both articles were written in collaboration with David Horvath, a research plant physiologist for the Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Fargo, N.D.

Dr. William Clapham, a plant physiologist at the University of Maine, recommends pinching off flowers for several weeks to increase fruit dry weight.

«It's literally a 25 - year story, but it has come to a head in the last year or so,» says Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U....

«The general guess is that most plants have it in a low concentration in the roots,» says John Tjepkema, a plant physiologist at the University of Maine.

In this new job, I could use the skills I had gained as a plant physiologist and contribute greatly to the advancement of the product.

But by this time, there was one small problem: I was married to a plant physiologist based at Queen's, and a move from Kingston and my husband was simply out of the question.

But the company consisted mainly of great molecular biologists producing exciting transgenic plants, and what they really needed was a plant physiologist who could assess these new plants.

In a recent issue of Trends in Plant Science, František Baluška, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Stefano Mancuso, a plant physiologist at the University of Florence in Italy, lay out new evidence for visually aware vegetation.

Randy Woodson, a plant physiologist at Purdue University, says it should be valuable for carnation growers because that flower is particularly susceptible to ethylene.

Jonathan Lynch, a plant physiologist at The Pennsylvania State University and another founder of the crops in silico movement, looks at root behavior under a range of soil nutrient conditions.

Plant physiologists and biologists around the world are now investigating these crucial questions in both the field and lab.

«If I were to go to a conference of plant physiologists and say, «Hey, is there diversity in the way that plant stomata behave?»

«It's literally a 25 - year story, but it has come to a head in the last year or so,» says Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md..

The results «add clarity in how we understand transport of water in wood,» says N. Michele Holbrook, a plant physiologist at Harvard.

Without these very special cells, says Jean - Christophe Domec, a plant physiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, conifers would be less able to compete with angiosperms, and conceivably, «there wouldn't be any conifers anymore.»

This paper will likely be very influential, adds Lawren Sack, a plant physiologist and ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, as paleobiologists can now better estimate photosynthesis for fossils from deep time.

Joe Berry, a plant physiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, came to work with Broecker at Biosphere 2 in 1996.

«This is the way evolution works,» says Andrej Pavlovic, a plant physiologist at Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic, who compares the flytrap's innovations to the modification of a bat wing or whale fin from the limb of their terrestrial ancestors.

«It's just a change in emphasis,» says Edward Farmer, a plant physiologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

People are going to say you are taking the RNA and spraying this in the open,» says Kassim Al - Khatib, a plant physiologist at the University of California, Davis.

The plant physiologist at Palacký University in the Czech Republic was not involved with the study.

The study, «Enhancing Onion Seed Germination and Root Traits by Plant Growth Regulators,» was conducted by Andrea Macias, graduate research assistant with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Leskovar, center director and plant physiologist.