Sentences with phrase «studying plant metabolism»

«WeizMass and MatchWeiz can serve as extremely powerful tools for studying plant metabolism and identifying metabolites with useful biological activity, including potential drugs,» says Aharoni.

Not exact matches

WeizMass and MatchWeiz are not limited to the study of plant metabolites but may also be used to investigate the biology of other living systems, including animal and human metabolism.

Lastly, the study of the genome improves knowledge of the secondary metabolism of plants and its diversification.

Both studies, which appear in the March 4 Cell Metabolism, suggest that animal proteins, including those from meat and dairy, are less healthy than plant proteins.

The study was funded by European Union Grant KBBE -2013-7, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Institute Strategic Programme Grant Understanding and Exploiting Plant and Microbial Metabolism BB / J004561 / 1, the John Innes Foundation, and other sources.

Advisors: Nicolas Galtier and Nicolas Bierne 2007 - 2010: PhD, Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales, University of Lille 1 Title: «Study of trans - specific polymorphism between two closely related plant species, Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata: evaluation of the relative impacts of demography and natural selection» Supervisors: Xavier Vekemans and Vincent Castric 2005 - 2007: Master in plant physiology, metabolism and development.

Dr. Altieri also leads a research program that studies how tumor cells evade programmed cell death and the role of mitochondria, power plant of the cells, in tumor metabolism.

Being planted in a chair all day does cause your metabolism to slow down, a number of studies have shown (One hour of sitting burns only 93 calories, whereas walking at a moderate pace for an hour burns 200.)

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)

Techniques employed in this study enable characterisation of plant metabolism (photosynthesis) and life - form distribution.

Of course «plants with different forms of metabolism (C3, C4 and CAM) will react differently» to enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, but as thousands of peer - reviewed studies have shown, the response is nonetheless near universal and overwhelmingly positive in all three major plant types.