Sentences with phrase «plant traits»

Scientists tracked down a multitude of plant trait data by using a variety of plant data bases that included thousands of species.

Many universities would also lose out if they could no longer charge royalties for plant traits or breeding tools.

We develop higher - yielding varieties by focusing on key physiological plant traits and genes expected to increase yield potential.

The question then boils down to this: Do insects see diminishing returns from increases in various plant traits?

We develop higher - yielding varieties by focusing on key physiological plant traits and genes expected to increase yield potential.

We add plant traits from oil producing plants, like safflower and olive to our algae through the use of biotechnology.

Incorporating this local variability of plant traits in the ESMs will lead to more accurate modeling of carbon cycle feedbacks.

The Discovery Process Our discovery process begins by understanding which plant traits would provide solutions for consumers, farmers and industry.

That means giving plants traits like resistance to disease, chemicals or flooding and bigger seeds is A-OK, since those could be achieved at a much slower rate with traditional breeding.

More generally, Wetzel and his team point out, if insects get diminishing returns from an increase in a given plant trait — for example, if they get ever-less out of each additional unit of protein — then biodiversity poses an evolutionary challenge.

At PBE2018 Peter B. Reich will give a talk on: «Functional biodiversity and biogeochemistry: linking plant traits and processes in a globally changing environment»

That may seem superfluous, because Indian law does not recognize patents on plants or plant traits at all.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

The research team constructed a new evolutionary tree of a major family of wild plant species, taking the distance between species as a proxy for plant trait diversity.

Julie Messier, a fourth year graduate student in ecology at the University of Arizona, measures 35 plant traits over 4oo trees and across 25 species in a temperate forest reserve in Canada.

«This work advances previous trait mapping endeavors by leveraging the largest to - date global plant trait database, TRY, which is three-fold larger than any used before.»

«This allows us to ask this important question: Is plant relatedness or are plant traits more important for determining which plant species a particular herbivore may feed on?»

«Subsequently, sophisticated statistical approaches were used to extrapolate plant trait values using a combination of climate, soil and spatial information.

«This research shows that macro-scale observations, such as plant trait expression, and ecosystem functions like nutrient cycling, are more intimately connected to micro-scale influences than we might expect,» summarizes Rout.

This research may open up new ways of thinking about how valuable plant traits can be combined in novel and useful ways.»

«It extends important plant physiological research on flood resistant plant traits.

General patterns of biodiversity effects may be more apparent if scientists consider the diversity in plant traits rather than simply species numbers.

Before they could turn to existing databases, however, they had to deal with an additional problem: Even the largest plant trait database to date — a global woodiness database containing nearly 50,000 species — contains less than 20 % of the more than 300,000 plant species known to science.

The herbaceous plant traits also include seed producers that die back after they have successfully dispersed seeds that will sprout when the time is right.

As a world - leading plant trait ag - biotechnology company, Performance Plants consistently delivers superior next generation food and non-food crop technologies.

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

To investigate, the team reviewed 76 studies published between 1968 and 2014 that looked at the relationship between plant traits and herbivorous insects» growth or survival.

Peter Bradbury, a USDA computational biologist who works on TASSEL, a software program that analyzes sequence data to find markers associated with plant traits, also attended the workshop.

For example, it has significant potential for forestry and for understanding belowground plant traits in unmanaged ecosystems that store significant quantities of carbon,» said Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for Earth & Environmental Sciences.

In more than 20 years of study, Ziska has examined plant traits in relation to climate change.

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

Kate Griffiths, lead author of the paper and a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, explained: «We don't know which plants and which plant traits will be most valuable in the future.

Plant traits like heat & drought tolerance, increased crop yields including increasing the biomass for non-food biofuel crops and reduced water requirements particularly in heat and drought stressed locations world - wide.

«Functional biodiversity and biogeochemistry: linking plant traits and processes in a globally changing environment»

The plant traits mapped in the study are critical for photosynthesis and foliar respiration and serve as input to the ESMs.

«The answer turns out to be that plant traits are more important.»

After 8 years of cultivating some 28,000 pea plants and analyzing seven pairs of seed and plant traits, Mendel uncovered the fundamentals of heredity, including the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, and recombination.

David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative, the study suggests that «to understand the evolution of plant traits, you also need to look at extinct herbivores and their interactions with the plants.»

The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled database of plant traits, reams of molecular data on evolutionary relationships, and complex statistical models to determine what the ancestor of all modern flowering plants might have looked like.

It is well known that plant traits are determined by DNA, specifically by the combination of four bases (a base sequence) of A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine) and G (guamine).

To compile the plant trait data for their study, the researchers spent hundreds of hours scouring and merging multiple large plant databases containing tens of thousands of species, largely with the support of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina and Macquarie University in Australia.

Map kinases are involved in different signaling chains responding to a wide range of environmental stimuli and stresses, and a detailed understanding of the cross talk between them is a prerequisite for accurate manipulation of plant traits.

We add these plant traits to our algae to help make an even better oil that's higher in monounsaturated and lower in saturated fat.

We add these plant traits to help make an even better oil that's higher in monounsaturated fat and lower in saturated fat.

The reconstruction of long - term fire histories in a given area of a size far greater than the classical lake catchment necessitates time - consuming field research using several complementary methods, including radiocarbon dating of charcoal, tree - ring dating and sometimes allometric scaling of plant traits, to accurately date ancient and recent fire events.

Used bioinformatics and biological computation techniques to research biochemical bases for the plant traits