Sentences with phrase «plant scientists at»

It was developed by plant scientists at Rutgers to create a more nutritious lettuce.

During the BLOOME grant year, Science IRL will create 10 new episodes that feature guest plant scientists at Harvard and other leading plant biology institutions across the country.

According to Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, «tolerance to heat stress in peas seems to be dependent on quite a few traits.»

Wild varieties, in contrast, «have dark green shoulders, and that makes it harder to determine the right time to harvest,» says Ann Powell, a plant scientist at the University of California, Davis.

They have made possible wholesale scans that turn up new gene modifications and variations, and the same should prove true for the new human gene arrays, says Joseph Ecker, a plant scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who has helped pioneer whole - genome chips for Arabidopsis.

Within hours of reading the paper last week, the plant scientist at the University of Freiburg in Germany resigned as an editor of the journal and asked for his name to be removed from its website.

«All approaches so far to breed salt - tolerant plants must be considered more or less as failures,» says Professor Rainer Hedrich, plant scientist at the Julius - Maximilians - Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany.

«In some years, the older varieties of pea weren't growing very well because of heat stress,» says Rosalind Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan.

According to Christopher Satch, plant scientist at The Sill, it's okay to water plants with seltzer once in a while.

Not exact matches

Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

Food scientists are examining animal products at the molecular level and sourcing plants with matching proteins and nutrients to create delicious plant - based meats, eggs, and dairy products that are healthier and more sustainable than conventional animal products.

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

«Smartest Food Scientist on Earth» Researchers at the Not Company (NotCo), a food - tech startup based in Chile, have developed food products that are made completely of plants but tastes like animal food.

«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the effects of plant life on humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press release.

«The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits,» said Gioia Massa, a scientist at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, in a press release.

Professor Charles Benbrook, one of the authors of the study and a leading scientist based at Washington State University, explains, «Our results are highly relevant and significant and will help both scientists and consumers sort through the often conflicting information currently available on the nutrient density of organic and conventional plant - based foods.»

Kebari barley was perfected over 13 years by scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia by using conventional plant breeding methods.

To get a good fruit average of each variety, the scientists harvested 25 random mature fruits from at least 10 plants.

The IRRI and Cambodia partnership began when six Cambodian scientists underwent training on plant breeding and rice production at the Institute between 1960 and 1973.

Here's the back story: Ever since the «Bhut Jolokia» first caused a media - induced ruckus because Indian plant scientists were claiming the title of the «World's Hottest Pepper,» we've been tracking developments on the SuperSite (see a list of related articles at the bottom).

At GFI, she supports food entrepreneurs and scientists interested in plant - based foods by researching plant - based ingredient functionality.

Jim Peacock is a former Chief Scientist of Australia and former Chief of the Division of Plant Industry at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia.

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

A second scientist, Marcus Heisler, an Australian plant developmental biologist, has 5 years of funding to support an independent lab at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.

The scientists at the Morton Arboretum typically have a variety of research - oriented positions available for undergraduate students and recent graduates seeking experience and internship credit in tree and plant research.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

The scientists studied crops at a Tokyo research field, including cabbages and potatoes that were planted a few weeks after rains showered the field with radioisotopes from Fukushima.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

Reporting their latest results in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, scientists in Germany based at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) together with researchers from the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spPlants at the University of Bonn, have been discovering what makes these plants so spplants so special.

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundAt least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundat the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

Greg Rau, a scientist at LLNL and the University of California, Santa Cruz, conducted a series of small - scale lab experiments that found seawater and calcium can be used to remove carbon dioxide from a gas - fired plant.

It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.

Christine Watson of SAC explained how scientists are using the minirhizotron camera, originally developed to look at cracks in pipelines, to study the longevity of plant roots.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Functional genomics will also help scientists understand how AMF interact with their plant symbionts at the molecular level.

The international research team that described the plant - eating dinosaur was led by a scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

The crisis at the nuclear plant in Japan, due in part to exposed spent fuel, is forcing U.S. scientists and policymakers to look for safer courses of action

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

Plant Hunters Elisabeth Pain, 30 March With many species still undiscovered, plant collecting can offer exciting opportunities for adventurous scientists — at some cost in comfort and job secuPlant Hunters Elisabeth Pain, 30 March With many species still undiscovered, plant collecting can offer exciting opportunities for adventurous scientists — at some cost in comfort and job secuplant collecting can offer exciting opportunities for adventurous scientists — at some cost in comfort and job security.

Scientists at the Millennium Seed Bank are racing against time to gather seeds from the world's plants before any species become extinct, but the global recession and the rise of climate skepticism are making the job harder

Scientists at Kumamoto University originally developed a cultivation kit to culture and identify mycorrhizae, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with many plants and are necessary for cultivating orchidaceous plants in the laboratory.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

As part of a larger project on «Biological Design and Integrative Structures,» researchers at the Plant Biomechanics Group of the University of Freiburg have been working with civil engineers and material scientists to investigate how this specialised structure could be applied in architecture.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München discover that extracts of the medicinal plant Cistus incanus (Ci) prevent human immunodeficiency viruses from infecting cells.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

To this end, scientists at TERI have begun research on biochemical prospecting of plant species for pesticidal and medicinal properties.

The scientists who work at the Pijaos ranch have two main goals: to perfect ways to kill the coca plant and to estimate exactly how much cocaine is produced in Colombia.

AgriLife Research scientists in Lubbock began searching the fields and plants for answers to help farmers cope, while another team in College Station took a deep look at the bacterium and cotton interaction at the cellular level and discovered its covert operations.