Sentences with phrase «researching young plant»

Rapid genome evolution can occur in predictable patterns, an international team of scientists has found whilst researching young plant species.

Not exact matches

Proprietary research from Packaged Facts indicates that younger adult consumers, those under age 40, seek out plant protein most.

Researchers Shannon Young, Thomas Wobby and Providence Ryan measure plants in a controlled experiment at the La Selva research lab in Costa Rica.

Most research looks at aging in older people, but the seeds of age - related diseases are planted decades earlier — that's why these researchers believe it's crucial to study aging in the young.

Tan knew from his research that young plants could develop abnormally in culture, but he took these misshapen fruits as a bad omen.

So researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, planted seeds from three endangered orchid species in plots on six sites in Maryland: three in younger forests aged 50 to 70 years old and three in more mature forests aged 120 to150 years old.

Infants as young as six months old tend to expect that plants are food sources, but only after an adult shows them that the food is safe to eat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

This supports recent research suggesting that younger adult women in traditional societies avoid plant toxins like nicotine to protect infants from harmful biochemicals, but that older women can consume these intoxicants as needed or desired.»

The co-PIs want to explain plant research projects to children because they believe young minds are capable of and will be inspired by learning about the intricacies of what plants can do.