Sentences with phrase «plant samples»

While the number of plant samples has gone up in 66 % of countries, budgets for gene banks have increased in only 33 %, and a quarter have seen their budgets fall.

In 2007, researchers were collecting long - frozen plant samples from the receding edges of the glacier when they noticed some bryophytes — plants which include mosses and mosslike liverworts — sprouting new parts (as seen in the main image).

«The open spaces have been designed as botanical garden [s] with plant samples from regions across Turkey, providing an educational resource for children of all ages and a place for picnics and informal gatherings for people living in the heart of the congested city.»

JGI postdoctoral researcher Frederik Schulz and Woyke unearthed Klosneuvirus while analyzing microcolony sequence data from a wastewater treatment plant sample in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Different plant species accumulate heavy metals in unique ways, which makes it challenging to take a broad swathe of plant samples for a simple side - by - side comparison.

So far, Miller's team has determined 370 different ages for plant samples collected on Baffin Island.

Keep the product container or plant sample with you to assist in identification so the appropriate treatment recommendations can be made.»

Collectors gathered plant samples to use and to re-create the snapshot back in New York; others killed the now - iconic animals that would be the centerpieces of these scenes.

Plant samples preserved underneath these outlet glaciers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic led NSF - funded researchers to conclude that the Earth's Little Ice Age began in 1275 and was triggered by repeated volcanic eruptions that cooled the atmosphere.

So Beebe and his colleagues deliberately planted samples of these 1000 varieties in two places even hotter: the lowlands along the northern coast of Colombia and a research field at the University of Tolima, southwest of Bogotá.

Most of these approaches either required at least some kind of sample processing or were not amenable to high - throughput screening, especially when dealing with, in some cases, thousands of mutagenized plant samples.

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«About half of the waste water treatment plants we sampled were toxic,» Weston said.

In 2006, when Greenpeace investigators examined Bt corn in Germany and Spain, they got a surprise: «The plants sampled showed in general very low Bt concentrations.»

• Maintain field experiments and collect soil and plant samples.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Perform lab and field management within the context of research grants, including the following: • Process soil and plant samples.

Working with US Department of Agriculture researchers, the Rodale Institute's Peggy Wagoner, a pioneering plant breeder and agricultural researcher, planted samples, measured their yields, and crossbred the best performers in an attempt to make a commercially viable perennial.

Disguised as a man, she helped Commerson collect a good deal of his plant samples.

Soil and plant samples were analysed by Stellenbosch University postgraduate student Alistair Galloway of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology.

Instead of contributing this peculiar finding to bacterial contamination of the plant samples, the researchers decided to study these sequences in more detail.

Crucially, LCLS works without freezing the plant samples — a necessity with some other instruments.

Using instruments like probes, Secchi disks, dip nets, and seines, they monitor oxygen levels, clarity, and temperature in the water and collect plant samples.

Based on the artist's research on Treat in BBG's Rare Book Room and her observations in the Garden, this conceptually based installation includes paintings, works on paper, archival letters, and plant samples, as well as a mapping of Treat's correspondence with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Asa Gray, who admired and cited her work.

Scientists are collecting lake sediment, rock, water and plant samples to explore linkages among Arctic sea ice, atmospheric uptake, and changes in snowfall on the Greenland Ice Sheet.