Sentences with phrase «plant specimens from»

Using herbaceous plant specimens from Brown University's herbarium collected from 1846 to 1916, Dr. Tim Whitfeld, senior author of the study, and his colleagues extracted and quantified heavy metal concentrations including copper, lead, and zinc.

Home to over 600 million plant specimens from around the world, it is considered a «living» museum.

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Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

In addition to our living collections, we have thousands of preserved specimens — from rare extinct species to common plants and animals.

A parasitic wasp identified from Uroleucon aphids in South Dakota cup plants, for instance, had characteristics similar to specimens of a known species, A. tissoti, found in British Columbia and Florida.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) last week unveiled an online cornucopia for plant taxonomists: 2500 crisp digital photos of specimens from four vascular plant families.

The petrified specimen comes from a large plant eater such as Iguanodon, which lived about 133 million years ago, and whose brain was pickled in mud after it died

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

The plant specimens used were collected from different areas around Providence, RI.

Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to document plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»

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.

When I took botany and taxonomy of vascular plants in college, we spent many an hour poring over specimens under dissecting microscopes pulled with tweezers from smelly jars of preserving liquid.

But the two plant scientists sometimes step away from their microscopes and specimens to have honest conversations with their colleagues about the challenges of doing research.

In addition its herbarium contain 10,000 preserved plant specimens ranging from algae to flowering plants..

Stephen Eichhorn's dynamic yet stoic hand - cut collages of plant images gathered from found botanical reference books call attention to the natural world as specimens of human - made constructions.

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Gardens» living collections encompass specimens from the tropics to the tundra, showcasing a plant palette chosen to thrive in Colorado's semi-arid climate.

He is often at Wave Hill this year as he consults with Wave Hill on a year - long study of the garden's 150 to 200 specimen trees, from which will emerge a maintenance plan and a planting scheme for the next century.

Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.

Dextras» garments begin life as plants harvested from a variety of places, ranging from areas affected by invasive species to specimens from Dextras» own garden.

Stemming from the Age of Exploration and Europe's introduction to loads of new - to - them plant specimens, the tradition of drawing and coloring the world's flora produced meticulous representations that are works of art in their own right.

Sadly though, it's attempt to find another tree with which to reproduce will likely be in vain as there's only one more like it in the whole country.According to a report from Sky News, the modest tree is a descendent of a specimen brought to Ireland from China in 1908 by plant collector E.H. Wilson, and one of only two Goat Horn trees that still survives in the country.

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2012 — Present ABC Company — Houston, TX Botanist • Rummage around for classifying new species of plants and categorize plant specimens • Work with other botanists to build up drugs, medicines and additional products from plants • Examine the effects of ecological factors for example rainfall, hotness, sunlight, soil, topography, and infection on plant development • Prepare technical reports and papers • Supervise and organize the work of technical support staff