Sentences with phrase «plant samples from»

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).

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The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

This was just a small sampling of my plant based meals — some simple, some complex, some home - made, and some from dining out.

«With the successful start - up of the pilot plant, Luminy PLA from the pilot plant is now available for customer sampling.»

School officials say they have planted an organic garden with exotic fruits and vegetables, provided students samples of healthy food items from around the world and asked parents to forgo cupcakes and other sweets for in - school celebrations.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

Raw, untreated water runs from a pipe at the city of Auburn's water treatment plant, where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its samples

Environmental approval for a 10 tonne per hour Dense Media Separation Plant is expected soon from the Madhya Pradesh government, which allows processing of bulk samples at the project site.

A report issued in April by the New York Attorney General's office found that microbeads were present in 74 percent of water samples taken from 34 municipal and private treatment plants across the state.

A study released by the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found microbeads in three - quarters of the samples collected from wastewater treatment plants statewide.

They analyzed the samples for colored dissolved organic matter, which contains light - absorbing molecules from the breakdown of plant polymers such as lignin.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

An international research team reports results of a three - year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published August 18, 2015, in the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

«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.

By capturing bees as they visit plants and then sampling the pollen they carry, she has confirmed in unpublished work that they get much of their food from introduced plants.

Researchers have been able to identify animal and plant DNA from soil samples since 2003, but this is the first time they've extracted hominin DNA.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

Plant biotechnologist Dr Paul Hills and botanist Dr Gary Stafford have already collected leaf samples and seed from the existing paintbrush lily population in the Duthie Reserve, as well as from seven individuals from a now extinct population from Newton Commanage, Wellington, currently under the care of the Botanical Garden.

Environmental engineer Rolf Halden and co-authors at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, gathered samples from an urban sewage treatment facility in the eastern United States, measuring the amount of TCC entering and exiting the treatment plant.

At the appropriate plant development stage, Albertine and colleagues bagged flowers, captured and measured pollen amounts and extracted the allergen protein Phl p 5 from pollen samples for measurement by enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

The sludge in the study came from two Arizona treatment plants and from a mixture of samples from around the country stored at ASU's U.S. National Biosolids Repository.

The Millennium Seed Bank aims to have samples from 10 % of the world's quarter - million - plus plant species by 2010.

He came to relish the task, investigating orange clouds from an ammunition plant in Tennessee and taking air samples from strip mines in Wyoming.

To test whether a partial loss of plant - derived dietary fiber would result in a partial loss of native gut microbes, the authors also collected fecal samples from a semi-captive population of red - shanked doucs who lived in a sanctuary and received about half of the normal variety of plants eaten by wild doucs.

First, samples of leaves from these plants are collected for in vitro cultures to isolate the fungi; then the DNA and RNA of fungi are extracted to sequence them and, through bioinformatic analysis, the researcher can determine the expression, the presence or absence of genes in the genomes of a species against each other.

By comparing DNA sequenced from primate stool samples to plant genomes the authors were able to actually measure the amount and diversity of plants being consumed by the captive and wild primates, and the difference was stark.

By comparing DNA from 1083 varieties of modern rice with 446 samples of wild rice taken from all over southern Asia, they have traced the plant's history back to three distinct types of rice.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

The scientists microscopically examined the washed and screened samples, revealing 23 plant fragments from mosses, liverworts, algae, and fungi — all believed able to grow into new plants, they report today in PeerJ.

Doughty gathered coal samples from mines throughout the U.S.. By measuring the coal elemental concentrations, he found elements needed by plants, like phosphorus, were more abundant and much better distributed during the era of the dinosaurs than the Carboniferous.

The inspectors, from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), found additional problems, including expired disinfectant, anthrax stored in unsecure freezers and labs, samples stored in Ziploc bags, and a lack of preparation at CDC's clinic for a large anthrax exposure.

With the help of volunteers, Alsos, Christian Brochmann of the University of Oslo, and colleagues collected 4439 samples, representing nine plant species, from more than 500 Arctic populations in Greenland, Russia, Scandinavia, and Svalbard.

They suggest conducting experiments to test that hypothesis.Meanwhile, John Hall Cushman of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, showed that soil samples taken along hiking trails have much higher rates of P. ramorum spores than those taken away from the trails, and that plants in areas with high visitation rates, such as public parks, had greater infection rates than those on sites where access is restricted.

They spent months collecting pollen from beehives and have developed a multi-locus metabarcoding approach to identify which plants, and what proportions of each, are present in pollen samples.

However, since plant tissues harbor three separate genomes (nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial), it can often be challenging to isolate the particular genome of interest from extracted DNA samples.

The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.

So Valente and colleagues at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and botanists from several countries, spent 2 years collecting DNA from both living plants and herbarium samples of more than 100 species of the carnation genus, known as Dianthus.

For that purpose, we harvested in total more than 400 samples from more than 60 randomly selected individual tomato plants.»

During one week in March 2011, Thomas and colleagues collected daily samples representing 24 hours of sewage flow from 21 sewage treatment plants in 19 cities across Europe — from Antwerp to Zagreb.

The colonization history of the Pyrenean rocket is well documented, explains postdoctoral researcher and corresponding author Katrien Vandepitte (Plant Conservation and Population Biology Research Group): «We found dried specimens of the Pyrenean rocket in herbaria from the 19th and 20th centuries and were able to isolate DNA from these samples.

We barcoded triplicate samples of plant product (powder) from the 44 herbal products and 50 herbal leaf samples using a tiered approach (rbcL + ITS2)[21].

Of the locations sampled in the study, resistance genes that are most likely to be mobile and able to jump from one bacterial strain to another were found in the highest numbers in the chicken coops of villagers in El Salvador and in the outgoing «gray» water from the sewage treatment plant outside Lima.

Such plants can be isolated using genome - wide association mapping of diverse populations or can be isolated from forward genetic screens, where a subset sample population with the desired traits is selected from a large pool of mutagenized individuals.

Or was a sample taken from a control with no plant, just the planting medium?

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

Plant - specific sensory systems are used to sample more than 20 different such parameters from a plant's environment and integrate the complex sensory information so that the plant can respond to the outside world via metabolic, physiological and behavioral adaptations essential for survPlant - specific sensory systems are used to sample more than 20 different such parameters from a plant's environment and integrate the complex sensory information so that the plant can respond to the outside world via metabolic, physiological and behavioral adaptations essential for survplant's environment and integrate the complex sensory information so that the plant can respond to the outside world via metabolic, physiological and behavioral adaptations essential for survplant can respond to the outside world via metabolic, physiological and behavioral adaptations essential for survival.

The samples ranged from a simple alcohol to a complex plant hormone, and the new method, dubbed «CAL» for covalent alignment (the molecules form a type of chemical bond known as a covalent bond in the MOFs), enables researchers to determine the complete structure of a molecule from a single MOF crystal that contains the sample molecules in its pores.

Researchers will be able to study samples ranging from engineered nanoparticles and nanostructures to naturally occurring biological polymers, tissues and plant cells.

Although soil taken from the barren center did not inhibit germination of grass seed, it supported plant growth poorly, whereas that from the edge and matrix allowed growth [1]--[4], but these effects were not consistent for all areas or sampled years [2].