Sentences with phrase «rice plant leaves»

But the team discovered through its comparative genomics of various microorganisms that Xanthomonas oryzae — a pathogenic bacteria that causes rice plant leaves to turn white before killing the plant — does not have Glu racemase genes.

Not exact matches

Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

During flooding, the rice plant elongates its leaves and stems to escape submergence.

Nearly all the Golden Rice plants at the site were uprooted and left on site.

When it becomes available, the decision to plant or consume Golden Rice is left to each individual.

A new study now finds, that backcrossing of the genetically engineered Golden Rice, with the Indian mega rice variety Swarna, leads to morphological changes such as pale green leaves, a reduced plant height and a drastic reduction in yiRice, with the Indian mega rice variety Swarna, leads to morphological changes such as pale green leaves, a reduced plant height and a drastic reduction in yirice variety Swarna, leads to morphological changes such as pale green leaves, a reduced plant height and a drastic reduction in yield.

University of Delaware student Jonathon Cottone knows the tell - tale signs that rice plants are getting sick: the yellowing leaves, the faint football - shaped lesions.

Purified single - walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water promoted greater plant growth (center) than the nanomaterial - free control (left) after eight days of an experiment at Rice University.

«Wheat has the classic C3 photosynthetic pathway in its leaves, however C3 plants, which include rice, are less efficient in hotter, drier climates,» Professor Henry said.

Scientists have long sought such a stiff - leafed rice plant, believing that it would raise grain yields.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

A rigid rice plant allows sunlight to reach leaves on even the lowest parts of the plant, improving photosynthesis and therefore grain production; it also allows plants to be placed in closer proximity without interfering with each other's growth.

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

«In Cambodia and in many other rice growing regions, the plants are grown in the soil and then when they harvest, they remove the straw and all of the above ground portion, so they leave the roots in place but most of the silicon is in the straw and also in the husk,» said Seyfferth.

oryzae (Xoo) and affects the rice plant at the seedling stage where infected leaves turn grayish green and roll up.

Based on their new phylogenomic maps, the researchers believe that RNA interference played a large role in the separation of monocots — plants that have a single seed leaf, including orchids, rice, and sugar cane — from other flowering plants.

Worrying too much about arsenic in rice is similar to people in the following video who worry about pinholes or leaves curling on their plants.

Moringa is a plant well - known by the people who use its leaves in the preparation of sauces which are eaten with couscous or rice; the tree grows everywhere in Senegal.

Constructed of 100 percent biodegradable, all - natural materials such as bamboo and rice husk, the Heart Pod includes a sympathy card and seeded leaf that can be planted with the beloved pet and will bloom beautiful wildflowers year - after - year as a living memorial.

«If you poke your head outside of the U.S., coal - fired plants are being built left and right,» said William L. Burns, an energy analyst with Johnson Rice in New Orleans.

Most commonly the substance are the dried leaves of the tobacco plant which has been rolled into rice paper into a small, round cylinder called a «cigarette».