Sentences with phrase «says plant biologist»

«We hardly expected anything so spectacular,» says plant biologist and co-author Winslow Briggs of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.

«We need to find ways to stimulate investment in food and agriculture and this helps accomplish that,» says plant biologist Roger Beachy of the Washington University in St. Louis, the former director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

«It's becoming impossible to work in Brazil, especially for young scientists,» says plant biologist Marcos Buckeridge, a professor at the University of São Paulo and president of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences.

«We are potentially looking at a very fundamental agent for the action of fire in the world's plants,» says plant biologist Kingsley Dixon, also of the University of Western Australia, who helped isolate the molecule.

Not exact matches

«Seeds are ideally suited to storing life,» says David Tepfer, an emeritus plant biologist at the Palace of Versailles Research Center of the National Institute for Agronomic Research in France.

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Non-native animals and plants get a poor press, but this often has more to do with prejudice than science, says biologist Mark Davis

The result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

Genomics gives plant biologists working in related fields «opportunities to start talking about what experiments not only are interesting but are important to do,» he says.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

«You would never guess something happened there 23 years ago,» says Martin Hajduch, a plant biologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Plants and animals will not dwindle away slowly, say mathematical ecologist Martin Hoyle and biologist Mike James, formerly of the University of Nottingham in England.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

Scientists should also recognize that there is a limit to what they can achieve, says Marcel Kuntz, a research director and fundamental plant biologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in the Laboratory of Plant and Cell Physiology in Grenoble, Frplant biologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in the Laboratory of Plant and Cell Physiology in Grenoble, FrPlant and Cell Physiology in Grenoble, France.

This oversight stems in part from the fact that few plant biologists know how — or are naturally inclined — to convert their biological insights into the mathematical equations that modelers need to improve the accuracy of their work, Leakey said.

Moctezuma routinely shows his students science documentaries such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the time - lapsed photography movies produced by plant biologist Roger Hangarter, «so they can watch a film and discuss or write how the film relates to the different concepts they would learn in class,» Moctezuma says.

Even the Russian Soyuz capsules that are the only route back to Earth since the space shuttle was retired last year are not ideal, because they lack freezers to store the seedlings during the plunge home, says the experiment's lead investigator Imara Perera, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

«As part of ITbM's interdisciplinary research initiative, we decided to search for new compounds that can inhibit the cell division in plants without causing damage to them,» says Minako Ueda, a plant biologist and a leader of this study.

«Through the collaboration with chemists and biologists, we were fortunate to discover a new compound that can selectively inhibit the cell division of plant cells regardless of the cell phase,» says Ueda and Nambo.

HHMI wanted to see more plant biologists apply, says Jack Dixon, HHMI chief scientific officer, so it and the Moore Foundation set up a special competition just for the field.

Biologists regard the mitochondrial genomes, or mitogenomes, of flowering plants as «extreme and often perplexing» in their wide range of sizes, structures and mutation rates, Palmer said.

«A racecar driver in Monaco wouldn't choose the same tires as a postal worker in the Yukon,» said Douglas Schemske, co-author and MSU plant biologist.

«It's pretty photogenic,» said corresponding author Cheryl Kerfeld, a Berkeley Lab structural biologist with a joint appointment as a professor at the MSU - DOE Plant Research Laboratory.

The debate centres on the finer points of flower architecture, but points to a broader concern about using statistical models and large data sets to tackle biological questions, says Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The sequence is a «big deal» says John Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, because filamentous Ascomycota such as N. crassa are involved in most plant diseases.

Regulators need to adapt to these new techniques, or run the risk of over - or under - regulating GM plants, says Roger Beachy, a plant biologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and former head of the USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

It is a native plant making a comeback, not an invasive on the rampage, says study co-author Alan Tye, a conservation biologist at the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, based in Samoa.

The study showed that «the control of the secondary cell wall is incredibly complex and detailed, which is important for plant biologists who want to change it to make biofuels,» she said.

«It is quite a striking pattern now that someone has pointed it out,» says plant evolutionary biologist Peter Crane of Yale, who was not involved in the study.

The work represents «a really nice collaboration between molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

«We see an ecological cascade of effects across the whole pollinator community, fundamentally changing the structure of plant - pollinator interaction networks,» says Berry Brosi, a biologist at Emory University and lead author of the study.

«People have always assumed that within the green - plant lineage, all the early branches were unicellular,» says Frederik Leliaert, an evolutionary biologist at Ghent University in Belgium.

«We have some very serious problems in agriculture, and we need to use all of the science that we can to solve these problems,» says Robert Goldberg, a plant biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The work is a «major step forward,» says Robert Schuurink, a plant molecular biologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

«It's nice to see they came to the same conclusion that we did» about liverworts, says Jim Leebens - Mack, a plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who helped gather the data Donoghue used for the new analysis.

«It suggests that bees may be able to respond quickly to novel problems that arise in their environment,» such as the introduction of new flowering plants and the loss of familiar ones, says Daniel Papaj, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Decisions to deregulate any wild GM plant like the eucalyptus must take into account this lack of research, said Hong Luo, a molecular biologist at Clemson University who has developed a gene containment system for another wild plant, turfgrass.

«A lot of biologists are very interested in this machine because they want answers to the question of how plant photosynthesis is affected, because photosynthesis is the key to our life and health,» said Tanaka.

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

And a deeper understanding of the genetic basis for resistance will be instrumental in developing and breeding better plants,» says plant molecular biologist John Mundy of Copenhagen University's Institute of Molecular Biology who led the Arabidopsis study.

«But as plant biologists, we're kind of frustrated,» said Palmgren.

AMHERST, Mass. — A decade or so ago, scientists discovered genes they thought could be turned on to make plants take up more iron from the soil, enriching cereals, grains and other staple foods that feed millions of people around the world an iron - poor diet leading to iron deficiency anemia, says molecular biologist Elsbeth Walker at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A poll survey report published in Washington Post «Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the nexBiologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the nexbiologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the next century.

A challenge going forward, whether with introduced animals, plants or pathogens, will be to know when to fight an invasive species (it's worth pushing on pythons, biologists say) and when to accommodate them.

North America, as a result, has 20 percent more plant species now than it did before colonization, biologists say.