Sentences with phrase «plant science works»

It's also a clear and engaging account of how plant science works (something I didn't think I was interested in), a vivid account of living with bipolar disorder, and a call to action for the planet.

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GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

The former, which may be called primitive science, describes the knowledge of the properties of materials gained by craftsmen working with wood, stone and metals, and that of plants and animals obtained by experience.

We were joined by representatives of the Department of Science and Technology - Biosafety Committee, Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry and members of the PhilRice Institutional Biosafety Committee, who had overseen every aspect of our work for the last few months.

The people I met ranged from fellow students to senior researchers, and from people interested in agricultural science, such as plant breeding, to people working on the social and economic aspects of agricultural development.

She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.

Exploring the Way Things Work inspired by The New Way Things Work from Mama Smiles Plant Science Experiment inspired by The Tales of Peter Rabbit from Inspiration Laboratories

Former Rep. Nan Hayworth penned a letter to the TU editor in defense of Indian Point, and said Cuomo's desire to close it while also working to keep the CNY Fitzpatrick nuclear plant open is «not based in reason and science but in politics.»

Panelist Brian Shmaefsky, a professor of environmental science at Lone Star College in Kingwood, Texas, described his work helping residents in Bangladesh get relief from water pollution created by tanneries without losing their jobs in those plants.

The water security work of the incoming AAAS Leshner Fellows draws from varied disciplines, including anthropology, civil engineering, biological and environmental sciences, geography, hydrology, political science and economics, plant genetics and horticulture.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

At CERN near Geneva and other large - scale scientific projects, people with a range of skills have come together to work toward specified goals; through citizen science, this idea can be broadened, be it by classifying newly discovered galaxies or identifying plants.

The work is the first of its kind in any organism and will have implications for both plant and animal sciences.

Kristen Wickert, a doctoral candidate in the division of plant and soil sciences, also at West Virginia University, who worked with Kasson, said that the viability of the Ailanthus varies.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much...

Springer works in plant genomics, an area that marries the verdant milieu of greenhouses and growth rooms — and sometimes even cornfields — to the florescent - lit world of bench and computational science.

David Hibbett of Clark University, another of the study's senior authors, compared the work to a previous collaboration with the DOE JGI detailed in Science to trace the evolution of white rot fungi, which are capable of breaking down cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in plants.

«One benefit of working with USDA - APHIS [Animal and Plant Heath Inspection Service] is using my science background to contribute to regulatory decisions, which are quickly implemented,» she says.

Jonathon Cottone, a UD junior majoring in animal and plant sciences, is working with rice plants, studying ways to help them resist arsenic while also increasing their nutritional value.

The work was led by Dr Manash Chatterjee, an Adjunct Faculty member of Botany and Plant Science at NUI Galway, and has been published in the journal BMC Plant Biology.

Cottone, a junior from Wilmington, Delaware, is working with Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences at UD, on research to help this globally important grain cope with increasing stress.

«Having microbes that can help plants establish early, grow fast and protect them from some of the stresses in their environment, especially drought, is a big deal,» said John Freeman, chief science officer at Intrinsyx who works with Doty's team at the UW.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

More than 80 faculty in departments from electrical engineering to agricultural economics to plant sciences are working in teams on these projects.

The South Dakota State University plant science professor has been working on wheat viruses for more than 25 years.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much fun.»

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

The results, which appear in the July 30 print edition of Nature and online, represent a culmination of more than a decade of work by researchers in three countries, including Christer Jansson, director of plant sciences at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

How did a mathematics graduate branch out into a career in plant science, bringing together his passions for theoretical and experimental work?

«This is an important and fascinating piece of work that shows the many differences between F. venenatum and the plant pathogen F. graminearum at a number of different levels,» says Rob Johnson, Science Manager and Fermentation Specialist at Quorn Foods.

At ASPB, we are privileged to publish the work of a range of authors whose scientific experience and academic leadership have helped establish our journals, Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, as highly respected sources of knowledge for the advancement of plant sciPlant Physiology and The Plant Cell, as highly respected sources of knowledge for the advancement of plant sciPlant Cell, as highly respected sources of knowledge for the advancement of plant sciplant science.

This work was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program (IOS - 1126971 and IOS - 1546218), the Zegar Family Foundation (A16 - 0051) and the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute (G1205) to M.D.P., and from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to D.Q.F. (NE / N010957 / 1).

Cavalieri and Griswold emphasized that many have contributed to the overall success of WSU plant sciences programs and cited several examples of work by plant science faculty at WSU that have had global impact.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington State University professor Xiao Zhang has received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to junior faculty for his work in converting tough plant material to liquid fuels.

«We also hope to improve on the properties of this new silk - based bionicomposite and are working on extending the technique to other animals (like silkworms) and plants,» adds Pugno, who is also professor at the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University in London and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento.

Working collaboratively with various stakeholders, Katie facilitates developing and disseminating K - 16 educational resources that support the effective teaching and learning of plant science in formal and informal settings.

The Committee also works to promote the public awareness of plant biology as a science with high relevance for society.

In addition to be being home to Ames Laboratory, ISU houses the Bioeconomy Institute (BEI), Iowa Energy Center (IEC), Plant Science Institute (PSI), Center for Biorenewal Chemicals (CBiRC) and Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2) which will inform the work being done at JBEI.

Over the course of my career, the plant science community has discovered the basis for plant immunity and elucidated a lot of detail about how it works.

Besides its importance to plant biologists, this work will have implications for agricultural science, evolutionary biology, and molecular medicine.

Oregon State fruit breeder Maxine Thompson: A trailblazer in plant science, now retired from academia, she continues to work on...

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

Universities should work with funding bodies to reverse the decline in subjects relevant to a sustainable intensification of food crop production, such as agronomy, plant physiology, pathology and general botany, soil science, environmental microbiology, weed science and entomology.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

This is a valuable resource for researchers of maize and other cereals, and anyone working on basic or applied science in the fields of seed development, plant genetics, and crop physiology.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

Rita is also an advocate for the participation of women and minority students in plant science through her participation in career development workshops, and she has worked with Monsanto, Together, an outreach program, to inform elementary and middle school students about plant science and careers.

Or plant a small garden on school grounds that teachers can work into the science curriculum.

«As a company, we are constantly working with science and nature to be connected to new power plants,» notes Moon Juice team member, Janie Wood.