Sentences with phrase «says plant physiologist»
The results, described in the 7 March issue of Nature, raise the possibility that nematodes and plants use some of the same equipment to fight drought, says plant physiologist Dorothea Bartels of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany.
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Moreover, farmers may be able to adapt to many of the changes by altering planting times or the crops they grow, says plant physiologist Jerry Hatfield of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa.
Not exact matches
«The general guess is that most plants have it in a low concentration in the roots,» says John Tjepkema, a plant physiologist at the University of Maine.
Randy Woodson, a plant physiologist at Purdue University, says it should be valuable for carnation growers because that flower is particularly susceptible to ethylene.
«If I were to go to a conference of plant physiologists and say, «Hey, is there diversity in the way that plant stomata behave?»
The results «add clarity in how we understand transport of water in wood,» says N. Michele Holbrook, a plant physiologist at Harvard.
«It's just a change in emphasis,» says Edward Farmer, a plant physiologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.
«Educational outreach is an important part of our center's mission,» said Dr. Daniel Leskovar, director of the Uvalde center and a plant physiologist.
In the Southeast, tulip poplars erupt in orange and yellow when rains are normal, but in drought «the leaves kind of brown up and turn black and just fall off,» Howard Neufeld, a plant physiologist at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, said.
Ibrahim and Rudd said the wheat improvement program consists of many more team members, from wheat geneticists, crop physiologists, plant pathologists and cereal chemists to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists and county agents.
«Furthermore, we can see that this negative effect exists regardless of whether or not the plants» growth increases, and even if fertiliser is added,» says Johan Uddling, a plant physiologist at Gothenburg, and a co-author of the report.