Sentences with phrase «plant scientists find»

These plant scientists found their professional niches the same way that most scientists do: through a combination of hard work, information gathering, serendipity, and networking.

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«Brazilian scientists found that yerba mate, herbal tea gleaned from a South American plant, can enhance short - term brain power.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

The scientists wrote in the journal Current Biology: «Our findings indicate for the first time that visiting honeybees provide plants with a totally unexpected advantage.

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.

Resistance could mean resurrecting the peanut ancestors» drought tolerance; or it could be a plant with a knack for repelling bugs; or it could be found by hacking the plant's immune system through mechanisms scientists are just beginning to understand.

Inside of these layers scientists have found pollen, allowing them to estimate the total amount of plant growth of that year by the pollen count.

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.

The scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

Cohen wasn't alone in singling out BMPEA: His study came about 18 months after FDA scientists reported detecting BMPEA in supplements, too, noting that nowhere could they find evidence that BMPEA was a natural component of plants.

To fully understand a plant's nuclear genome, scientists must also study two other genomes found within plant cells — in the «powerhouse» mitochondria and in the photosynthesizing chloroplast organelles.

When scientists said in 2015 they had found a plant - eating theropod dinosaur, it was as if a vegetarian had crashed a meat lovers» barbecue.

The scientists found that individual houses without significant plant coverage in the yard could still support high arthropod diversity when located within more affluent neighborhoods.

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.

A team of American and British scientists, publishing in the 2010 Proceedings of the British Royal Society, estimated that of all the plants on earth, some 60,000 species remain to be found.

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.

He is typical of plant - genome scientists, whose work often combines a passion for understanding their subjects» inner workings with a belief that their findings will help counter some of humanity's most urgent problems: hunger and malnutrition, the demand for renewable energy, and climate change.

By throwing a wrench in the plant cell's lignin assembly line, BESC scientists found they could boost biofuel production by 38 percent.

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

A scientist has found that a thorny, palmlike plant in Liberia seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes, which are known to contain diamonds.

The findings are helping to aid scientists» understanding of how plants can control how their pollen is spread by foraging insects.

In recent years, scientists have identified a host of compounds called chemical elicitors — found, for example, in insect saliva — that can limit plant defenses, including the production of bad - tasting compounds that ward off herbivores.

In one of the first studies of its type, scientists found that the way in which plants arrange their flowers affects the flight patterns taken by foraging bees.

By isolating a key gene in the remaining plants, scientists found the receptor that aids in plant development and helps repair a plant during major events.

Scientists at the RBGE turn those data into taxonomic monographs (descriptions of all the plants in a particular genus) and floras (descriptions of all the plants found in a given geographic area).

A recent study by a Kansas State University weed scientist finds why the invasive weed kochia is like a cockroach of the plant world.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

The find might eventually help scientists create more drought - resistant crop plants, the researchers report in the March 17 Science.

When scientists engineered the plants to express the glutathione transferase (DmGSTE6) gene found in fruit flies, they found that plants expressing the gene were more resistant to TNT and were better able to remove it from contaminated soil than wild - type plants without the gene.

For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.

But although scientists know this chemistry found in plants is helpful to humans, they do not fully understand how it works or know how to bring it about in a lab.

Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery - white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants, which are part of the Garden's national collection of European Saxifraga species.

For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

The scientist then put the plants under red lights in a greenhouse and found the process is slowing down the disease's growth.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

Scientists have found that a plant pigment called quercetin — found in some fruits, vegetables, herbs and grains — could help to prevent the damage to nerves associated with the childhood form of motor neuron disease.

Scientists have found vivid evidence of climate change in Southern California's Santa Rosa Mountains, where the dominant plant species are creeping up the slopes as the weather gets warmer.

Similarly, scientists have long assumed that bitter taste evolved as a defense mechanism to detect potentially harmful toxins commonly found in plants.

The scientists looked at 19 plant species in the tropics found at least 1000 metres above sea level.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

The scientists found that exposure to drift - level doses of herbicide reduced flowering in both plant species.

The researchers said the findings provided insights into how plants modulate their growth, and could lead to scientists designing plants that could withstand elevated temperatures.

The find helps scientists better understand the evolution and diversity of ancient seed plants.

This is the first time scientists have found both sun - and shade - tolerant adaptations within a single plant.

In the complex architecture that ferries fluids in plants and brains, scientists are finding a model of resilience

Because of the very low nitrate levels found in arctic tundra soil, scientists had assumed that plants in this biome do not use nitrate.

Scientists from the universities of Granada and Almería have now carried out an exhaustive analysis of the populations of this species, and have observed that the plants found in Málaga differ significantly from those found in Granada: they have flowers with a long and straight spur, which are uniform in colour and intensely violet, except for a yellow spot at the entrance to the tube of the corolla (the area called the palate), with subtle violet veins.

Using a digital terrain model of the landscape and a hydrological model simulation the scientists found that planting trees on the floodplain and increasing the number of logjams, across 10 - 15 per cent of the total river length could reduce the peak height of a potential flood in the town by 6 per cent once the trees had grown for 25 years.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.