Sentences with phrase «plant responses»

Current research on improvement of crops involves dissection of plant responses to various stress caused by a lack of water, restricted nitrogen availability, or high temperature.

The results have implications for plant response to climate change — some plant lineages, including many crops, will not have the underlying genetic attributes that will allow for rapid responses to climate change.»

The study was done at both the University of Georgia Horticulture Farm in Watkinsville, Georgia and at the University of Georgia Tifton campus so the scientists could compare plant responses under different environmental conditions.

Bayer explained that the studies were conducted in two different U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones (Tifton 8b, Watkinsville 8a) to compare plant responses under different environmental conditions.

«We think ATP is central to this kind of wound response and probably plays a role in development and a whole host of other plant responses to environmental changes and pests.

Responses to elevated CO2 levels in C3 and C4 grasses reverse after 12 years, raising questions about long - term plant responses to global change.

In addition, specific genes that influenced photosynthesis and other important plant responses differed in expression.

The unknowns are why Lee plans to continue studying perennial plant responses to day length and temperature.

The scientists analyzed plant responses by collecting chromacity, Brix, titratable acidity, electrical conductivity, and pH measurements.

Comprehensive transcriptome analyses reveal tomato plant responses to tobacco rattle virus - based gene silencing vectors

Again, this is anecdotal, but I've seen the drooling, chin rubbing, falling - asleep - clutching - the - plant response much more often with a stalk of homegrown catnip.

The last 20 + years of measuring our planets vegetative health, crop yields and plant responses proves irrefutably the huge benefits of increasing CO2.

Swann, A. L. S., Hoffman, F. M., Koven, C. D. & Randerson, J. T. Plant responses to increasing CO2 reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity.

These results critically depend on the biogenic emissions and thus are subject to the high uncertainty associated with these emissions estimated due to the insufficient knowledge on plant response to carbon dioxide changes.

Figure 4 shows three distinct determinations for plant response to the ligand: visual, quantitative changes to the maximum efficiency of photosystem II (Fv / Fm) and with quantitative RT - PCR.

There are a number of plant responses to desiccation.

The signatories of the petition represent a knowledgeable consortium of scientists, who have published more than 17,600 scientific papers on subjects including plant breeding, the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying plant growth and development, and plant responses to environmental stresses.

We show that evolutionarily conserved histidine kinase signal transduction components [9], [10], [11] can be used to build a synthetic signal transduction system, and we then use this system to link input from computationally re-designed receptors to a plant response.

Our synthetic signal transduction pathway is able to functionally link input from the computationally re-designed receptors to a plant response system, producing a prototype detector plant.

We have previously described a plant response system that produces white plants when a «de-greening gene circuit» is transcriptionally induced with an estrogen - like hormone [7].

If the computer re-designed receptors could be adapted in plants so that their highly specific and sensitive detection abilities are functionally linked to such a plant response, a powerful and inexpensive detection technology would result.

Moreover, the data can serve as a basis for studies concerning the evolution of signaling mechanisms, as well as can give specific insights into the regulation of basic cellular processes such as polar cell growth, cell expansion, plant morphogenesis and the plants responses to fungal pathogens.

Revision sheet for students to think about the plant responses required practical.

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The plant response to high CO2 has typically been shown to be that they down - regulate RuBisCo (CO2 fixation enzyme) synthesis over time.

In conclusion, studies on plant responses to increased atmospheric CO 2 concentration and elevated temperatures have become abundant in the last 20 years (for reviews, see Way and Oren 2010, Franks et al. 2013).

She is a biogeochemist and plant ecophysiologist with expertise in climate change, ranging from arctic warming impacts on permafrost carbon to plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide.

Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past - Gerhart - 2010 - New Phytologist.