Sentences with phrase «researchers say plant»

The researchers say plants will fire off signals based on conditions like light / darkness, damage to the plant, and more.

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«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

Security flaws would have let potential hackers shut down power plants, water systems and solar power facilities remotely, researchers say.

The market researcher said the global market will see an ever - growing number of products on shelves featuring plants as key ingredients as producers grapple to capitalize on consumer's nearly omnipresent priority for health and wellness.

Lead researcher Dr Michael Macknin, of the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital in Ohio, said the findings of the study showed eating less meat and more plant - based foods could be «an effective lifestyle modification» to help reverse risk factors for heart disease.

Ancient riverbed deposits of mud rock — rocks containing bits of clay and silt smaller than grains of sand — began increasing around 458 million years ago, around the time that rootless plants became common across Earth, researchers say.

The hardy seeds of the common flowering plant would probably even survive a voyage between planets, say the researchers.

Judd and fellow researchers Brian Jackson, Ted Yap, and William Fonteno said that the mini-Horhizotron gives growers a new, effective way to study a plant's root growth.

«What these researchers are uncovering about the agronomics of cup plant, as well as the insects that affect them, will help us decide how they can be integrated into a bioenergy cropping system,» said Vance Owens, director of the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

«When these little ocean plants are starved for iron, they produce more chlorophyll than they need,» says lead researcher Michael Behrenfeld of Oregon State University.

However, researchers say that constructing a fusion power plant has proven to be a daunting task, in no small part because there have been no materials that could survive the grueling conditions found in the core of a fusion reactor.

«I think the reason the plant's surface is super-hydrophobic is because it lives on the water and requires air to survive,» Yang Yang, a postdoctoral researcher on Chen's team, said.

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

While not writing off biotechnology or GM foods, the researchers say that, until more is known, it's prudent to acknowledge and address uncertainties about their effects on people, animals and plants.

«In test plots where crabs were excluded, we found that vegetation loss was significantly lower and many plants could survive the drought,» said Qiang He, a postdoctoral researcher in Silliman's lab.

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached waters offshore Canada, researchers said today at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.

Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective plant growth promoters, she said.

«Soybean is the fifth largest crop in the world in terms of both crop area planted and amount harvested,» says the project's lead, University of Adelaide researcher Associate Professor Matthew Gilliham.

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.

Lead researcher Dr Morgan Beeby said: «We are used to observing evolution at the scale of animals or plants, such as the giraffe's neck slowly getting longer over time to reach previously inaccessible food.

«It is fundamental to have a strong knowledge in botany for any work with plants; we have to be sure about identification,» the Portuguese researcher says.

Nearly 500 years after forming in their parent plant, lotus seeds from a Chinese lakebed have sprouted seedlings of their own, researchers say.

It's «a wonderful study» which demonstrates that the evolution of water conservation «set the stage for the loss of leaves and the evolution of succulence,» says David Ackerly, a plant evolution researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

If researchers can understand how plants respond to radiation, Mousseau says, they could begin to engineer crops to withstand — or even sequester and remove — nuclear contamination.

Now, researchers say they've discovered changes in the proteins of soybeans grown near Chernobyl that could explain how plants survive despite chronic radiation exposure.

It may also help researchers develop new ways to engineer drought - resistant plants, he says.

In some of these areas, the researchers say, planners could evaluate whether more trees could be planted to create more balance.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

«Plants offer a huge resource of varied compounds worth tapping into,» says Jennifer Court, one of the researchers.

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

Now protected from humans, elk and other mammals flourish near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, researchers say.

He says the researchers so far have produced less than two pounds (a kilogram) of BDO; he expects a pilot plant to be up and running next year.

Big bluestem grass can live several decades, so prairie restoration projects will need to consider the form of plants that would thrive at a site several decades into the future, researchers said.

CopyCat cloning, the researchers say, has «the potential to greatly accelerate the assembly of complex genetic strains of animals or plants.»

First author Onur Oztas, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sancar lab, said, «DNA damage accumulating in a plant will impair its growth and development, so boosting the excision repair system could be a good strategy for improving crop yields.»

«Making crop plants more water - use efficient is arguably the greatest challenge for current and future plant scientists,» said co-first author Johannes Kromdijk, a postdoctoral researcher at the IGB.

«These plants had more water than they needed, but that won't always be the case,» said co-first author Katarzyna Glowacka, a postdoctoral researcher who led this research at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).

And other plant researchers are very pleased: «This is a great paper... with great importance to agriculture,» says Steven Jacobsen, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

This fuel — a mix of hydrogen and boron — is harder to react, but Tri Alpha researchers say it avoids many of the problems likely to confront conventional fusion power plants.

«It's possible that you plant this hedgerow and it sucks all the native bees from the landscape,» says Leithen M'Gonigle, a postdoctoral researcher in Kremen's lab.

«It's a large amount of pharmaceuticals that we [wastewater treatment plant researchers] look at, it's not a trend that the plants generate higher compound concentrations,» she said.

«How carnivorous plants acquired a taste for meat: For a plant, the evolutionary pathways to becoming a carnivore may be limited, researchers say.»

«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.

«There was a major gap for researchers using genomic DNA sequences to understand the evolution of species complexes,» says Ryan Folk, lead author of a study in a recent issue Applications in Plant Sciences.

Short interactive videos in the exhibit's theater feature IBM researchers such as David Ferrucci (who led the development of Watson) as well as scientists such as Howard - Yana Shapiro, global director of plant science and external research at Mars Inc. «We wanted to do something that would be open to the public,» says IBM's Lee Green, vice president of brand experience and strategic design.

«The mechanism is believed to have originated in order to ensure the survival of plants located at sites with nitrogen deficiency,» said Dr. Gitto Kuruthukulangarakoola, first author of the study who is also a researcher at BIOP.

«Plants, by reacting to changes in temperature, also moderate these changes,» says IIASA and University of Helsinki researcher Pauli Paasonen, who led the study.

More work is needed to extend the new approach to other plant species, and to broaden the effort to include models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.

The humble earthworm may be a threat to plant diversity in natural ecosystems, says a study just published by researchers from Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke.