Sentences with phrase «plant physiologist dorothea»

Plant physiologist and inventor M. Glen Kertz has been a global leader in the fields of molecular genetics, plant tissue and cell culture for over 35 years.
Plant physiologist Bert Drake created the Smithsonian's Global Change Ecological Research Wetland in 1987 at Edgewater.
USDA plant physiologist Julie Wolf and colleagues reevaluated the data that were used to calculate the IPCC 2006 methane emissions estimates.
Lord knows why they think a plant physiologist with a 15 year old PhD on snow gums would be expert.
«Furthermore, we can see that this negative effect exists regardless of whether or not the plants» growth increases, and even if fertiliser is added,» says Johan Uddling, a plant physiologist at Gothenburg, and a co-author of the report.
Dr. Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, and colleagues at the National Allergy Bureau and Aerobiology Canada, analyzed ragweed pollen counts at ten monitoring stations along a south to north transect, from Texas north to Saskatchewan, Canada, from 1995 to 2009.
Fakhri Bazzaz, a plant physiologist at Harvard, has found that carbon dioxide - enriched air accelerates short - term plant growth, but his studies were carried out under controlled greenhouse conditions and are difficult to translate to a larger scale.
Tetracyclines were discovered in the late 1940s by an American plant physiologist named Benjamin Minge Duggar from soil bacteria called actinomycetes.
Beyond the three CS representatives, my cohort contained two earth scientists, one environmental chemist, one physicist, one plant physiologist, two MDs, one veterinarian, and two engineers.
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.
In the Southeast, tulip poplars erupt in orange and yellow when rains are normal, but in drought «the leaves kind of brown up and turn black and just fall off,» Howard Neufeld, a plant physiologist at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, said.
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.
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.
«Educational outreach is an important part of our center's mission,» said Dr. Daniel Leskovar, director of the Uvalde center and a plant physiologist.
The plant physiologist at Palacký University in the Czech Republic was not involved with the study.
«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.
I called plant physiologist Michele Holbrook at Harvard University, a source for the tree story, to give her the bad news.
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.
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.
«It's just a change in emphasis,» says Edward Farmer, a plant physiologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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.
The results «add clarity in how we understand transport of water in wood,» says N. Michele Holbrook, a plant physiologist at Harvard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Randy Woodson, a plant physiologist at Purdue University, says it should be valuable for carnation growers because that flower is particularly susceptible to ethylene.
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.
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.
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 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.
«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.
Plant physiologist Ian Dodd studies how drought - tolerant plants work, information that's useful for developing sustainable crops in hot countries.
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.
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.
«If I were to go to a conference of plant physiologists and say, «Hey, is there diversity in the way that plant stomata behave?»
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.
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.
1983 William H. and Winifred Klein for exceptional service rendered to the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
1989 * John B. Hanson for outstanding service to the discipline of plant physiology as a scientist, educator, and administrator and for contributing time, expertise, and wisdom to the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
The chapter on photosynthesis is about to be rewritten, thanks to work by David Kramer and his research team at Washington State University's Institute of Biological Chemistry.Using instruments they designed and built themselves, Kramer and his group have discovered that plants adjust their light intake to match their metabolic needs by regulating the level of protons within sealed chambers in the chloroplasts.Traditionally, plant physiologists have focused on the role of electrons in photosynthesis.
Why do you think McIntyre, a mining guy, knows more about plant physiology than plant physiologists?
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)?

Not exact matches

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.
To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.
The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, according to research by Medical College of Georgia Cell Physiologist Dr. Yisang Yoon.
Dr. Curtis Adams, Texas A&M AgriLife Research crop physiologist, Vernon, tested the effects of contrasting soils, a sandy loam and a clay loam, and Rhizobium inoculants on nodulation and plant growth in two guar varieties in the greenhouse.
Ibrahim and Rudd said the wheat improvement program consists of many more team members, from wheat geneticists, crop physiologists, plant pathologists and cereal chemists to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists and county agents.
As a physiologist I've seen no data that plants will not increase sequestration of soil CO2.
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