Sentences with phrase «plant scientists work»

Specially trained malting scientists work in conjunction with chemists to determine the efficiency of their malting process, while plant scientists work towards improving the barley varieties to yield more sugars, faster.

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Here's how it works: Scientists identify the desired genes in a plant or animal and insert them into a host such as yeast.

Plant scientists, including us, are working out the genetics of wild banana varieties and banana pathogens as we try to prevent a Cavendish crash.

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

Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.

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.

GFI builds the capacity of the animal advocacy movement by recruiting scientists and entrepreneurs to work in cellular agriculture and plant - based technology and by doing scientific research.

Scientists in Ireland are working on a process to produce duckweed for use in animal feed by capturing essential nutrients in wastewater from dairy processing plants.

«When GFI's scientists started working on this issue in June 2016, Friedrich told them explicitly that GFI does not need to promote clean meat — if we think it can not become cost - competitive with the products of industrial animal agriculture then we should stop promoting it and focus on plant - based meat.»

Since 1996, students in grades 5 through 12 on the North Shore have been working with Mass Audubon scientists to learn about salt marshes and common reed (Phragmites australis), an invasive plant that grows in salt marshes.

[Associated image: An Australian scientist works with blackberry plants as part of research into the biological control of blackberry infestations.

«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.

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.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

Working with scientists from the Moorea Biocode Project, which aims to create a complete inventory of the island's species, Liittschwager photographed more than 600 different plants and animals here.

Before the laureates did their work, other scientists had established that plants and animals have circadian rhythms.

In previous work, RIKEN scientists showed that Arabidopsis plants express the AtGolS2 gene in response to drought and salinity stress.

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.

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.

The researchers conducted 26 face - to - face interviews with a representative sample of German - speaking scientists working on plant invasions, or more generally on environmental change, in Europe.

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.

Plant scientists have only recently begun to understand how the vernalization response in plants works, Akhunov said.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

In two centuries of work, scientists have named and described about 1.5 million species of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms — only a small fraction of the estimated 10 to 100 million species that exist today.

The scientists, led by agronomist Kenneth Cassman of the University of Nebraska and Shaobing Peng of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, believe hotter nights may speed up respiration, causing the plant to work harder and waste energy.

A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The UNC scientists hope to determine why that is and precisely how plants» distinctive set of excision repair proteins work together to keep plant genomes in good repair.

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.

Since then, very few plant scientists had questioned whether the equation for soybean also worked in other species.

«It's becoming impossible to work in Brazil, especially for young scientists,» says plant biologist Marcos Buckeridge, a professor at the University of São Paulo and president of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

We hope this work can motivate scientists to be the lookout for prions in plants.»

Scientists have discovered that a protein known to control salt balance in animals works the same way in plants.

With this study we've learned something new about how these pathways work, giving plant scientists another tool for improving crop yields.»

The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

Similarly plant scientists need to work with industry to explore the full potential of a discovery.

Scientists working at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant near Reykjavik, Iceland, were able to pump the plant's carbon dioxide - rich volcanic gases into deep underground basalt formations, mix them with water and chemically solidify the carbon dioxide.

Scientists from the UA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture worked closely with cotton growers in Arizona to develop and implement resistance management strategies such as providing «refuges» of standard cotton plants that do not produce Bt proteins and releasing sterile pink bollworm moths.

They have to send in a sample of the plant, that is then positively identified by scientists at the University of Florida, who work in partnership with the state to combat invasive species.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

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.

Isabell Albert, Hannah Böhm, Thorsten Nürnberger and other researchers at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), working with scientists at the universities of Utrecht, Würzburg and Tsinghua (Beijing) have identified genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nPlant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), working with scientists at the universities of Utrecht, Würzburg and Tsinghua (Beijing) have identified genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nplant Arabidopsis thaliana which are important for recognising nlp20.

These scientists work on projects spanning from the identification of plant compounds and insecticidal proteins to the development of renewable biotechnology products and biosensors for herbicides as well as developing yeast as source for dietary supplements!

BTI's Plant Genome Research Program hosted 29 undergraduate and high school students for a summer of hands - on lab work, bioinformatics training, and mentoring by scientists at BTI, Cornell University and the USDA Holley Center.

Overall, WSU plant scientists ranked second in terms of number of journal articles published per faculty member in the category (only Berkeley ranked higher in that area) and third in the percentage of faculty whose work was cited by another work.

Awardees generally have made contributions to the broader society that are relevant to the work of plant biologists; recipients need not be plant scientists themselves.

The ASPB Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research is a monetary award made biennially to a plant scientist whose work both illuminates the present and suggests paths to enlighten the fuPlant Biology Research is a monetary award made biennially to a plant scientist whose work both illuminates the present and suggests paths to enlighten the fuplant scientist whose work both illuminates the present and suggests paths to enlighten the future.

Prior work by Mary Firestone, Berkeley Lab faculty scientist and a professor of microbiology at UC Berkeley, had shown that plants were consistently selecting or suppressing the same types of microbes over time in the root zone, suggesting some form of synchronization between plant and microbiome development.