Sentences with phrase «regulating plant growth»

From regulating plant growth to regulating populations of other species, mammals are a must.

The plant hormone the biologists directly tracked is abscisic acid, or ABA, which plays a major role in activating drought resistance responses of plants and in regulating plant growth under environmental stress conditions.

Dinneny is passionate about the molecular whys and hows of regulating plant growth.

A group in Indiana discovered that a plant hormone called auxin, which regulates plant growth, binds directly with ubiquitin ligase to regulate protein degradation.

We've discovered that plants bind GABA in a similar way to animals, resulting in electrical signals that ultimately regulate plant growth when a plant is exposed to a stressful environment.»

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These signals determine how the plant regulates water use and growth, which affect crop yields.

«A new regulator of vesicle trafficking in plants: Choline transporter regulates ion homeostasis and plant growth and development.»

To learn more about these growth - regulating genes, Dr. Inzé's team, in close collaboration with Dr Arthur Korte of the GMI (Austria) and the University of Würzburg (Germany), looked at the genetic variability of 100 types (accessions) of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant.

Because plants can not relocate when resources become scarce, they need to efficiently regulate their growth by responding to environmental cues.

«This shows us how the auxin system has become more complex, and which components plants can modify to use the hormone for new processes to regulate its growth and shape,» explains Professor Weijers.

The study provides the first field - based evidence that arctic N2O emissions increase when the Arctic is warming; and that hampered plant growth plays a substantial role in regulating Arctic greenhouse gas exchange.

The inhibition is regulated by different molecules in animals and plants,» explains NAIST Professor Masaaki Umeda, who studies the role of stem cells in plant growth.

Apart from advancing our understanding of how plants regulate their growth and shape, this research presents new questions for stem cell researchers in regards to cell size checkpoints and their importance during organism development.

«With increasing average temperatures across the globe being predicted to have negative impacts on agricultural productivity, it is important to understand more about how plants regulate their growth,» said Associate Professor Balasubramanian, School of Biological Sciences, which was also echoed by Dr. Carlos Alonso Blanco, who co-lead the investigation at National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) from Spain.

Researchers have discovered a new gene that enables plants to regulate their growth in different temperatures.

What regulates these plants» growth is light (of which there is plenty near the surface) and the availability of nutrients.

Also known by its chemical name, Indole -3-butyric Acid (IBA), Hormodin works by mimicking a plant hormone called auxin that regulates many aspects of plant growth.

My lab studies genes and signals in cells that regulate the growth and shape of plants.

In the future, if we can fully decode the mechanism for increasing roots, we could potentially regulate the growth of various crops and garden plants by artificially altering root development.

The phytochemicals (plant chemicals) in potatoes and sweet potatoes may also keep us healthy by regulating the immune system, fighting viruses and other pathogens, controlling inflammation, and inhibiting tumour growth.

Matthew Gilliham, senior author and associate professor at the University of Adelaide, says plants seem to use gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) to regulate electrical signals that can then control their growth.

This is why the atmosphere around the Earth was first likened to a greenhouse, a real greenhouse which has both heating and cooling to regulate temperatures for optimum plant growth.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).