Sentences with phrase «plant traits at»

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Data were collected on the amount of irrigation, total plant biomass, moisture content at harvest, forage quality and other agronomic traits.

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.»

Instead, they may «chase» plants based on the herbivore's own traits at the time they encounter a new host.

«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).

Conventional thinking says that any defense trait — in this case, herbicide resistance — should come at a cost to the plant.

«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.

Because the abnormality shows up in genetically identical clones, «it's impossible to attack genetically,» an approach often taken when a crop has a bad trait that can be bred out of that variety, says study co-author Robert Martienssen, a plant geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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.»

«Interestingly, at the end, mainly traits related to interactions between plants and plants or plants and animals were important,» reports Anne Kempel, first author of the study.

Andrea Eveland, Ph.D., assistant member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and her team identified a genetic mechanism that controls developmental traits related to grain production in cereals.

Thomas Givnish, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adds that the hypothesis could be strengthened by «exposing these plants to... emus or ostriches to demonstrate that these traits deter browsing by birds.»

At the Danforth Center, Eveland's research focuses on the developmental mechanisms that control plant architecture traits in cereal crops.

«Heat tolerance is a very important trait for bean production in Central America and the Caribbean,» says James Beaver, a plant breeder at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who was not involved in the study.

The problem is that plants with good possibilities often have the same traits that make then potentially invasive species, said Lauren Quinn, an invasive plant ecologist at the University of Illinois» Energy Biosciences Institute.

«Thus far,» Hedin added, «everybody has quite naturally tried to understand how plants are organized by looking at above - ground traits.

Microbiologist Mark Morrison, an associate professor at Ohio State's Department of Animal Sciences who is the consortium's coordinator, says its main goals are to pinpoint those parts of the bacterial genomes that play a role in degrading cellulose and other plant polysaccharides, and also to identify other genetic traits that are critical to the bacteria's colonization and persistence in the digestive systems of the host animals.

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

They use natural plant centromeres (a key part of chromosomes needed for their inheritance), promoters (gene activation sites), and gene - termination sequences to assemble linear or circular minichromosomes that contain at least a dozen genes that can improve crops by promoting traits like pest and disease resistance.

Ask them to explore the hybrid information provided at the Ag Alumni Seed Popcorn Web site and have them identify the traits the farmers might have been trying to develop in each type of hybrid popcorn plant.

With a reconfigured all - wheel drive setup, available torque - vectoring and a sport rear differential, the S5 does its best to minimize this trait and the overall impressions are of a very well planted car that offers an astounding level of control even at very high cornering speeds.

As noted by Collard and Mackill (2008), marker - assisted selection or MAS could be simpler than screening for the trait itself and can be practiced even at the seedling stage, on single plants, and away from the target environment.