Sentences with phrase «where plant scientists»

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GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

One of the main problems with genetic engineering is that the process of inserting genes into the DNA of a food plant is random; scientists have no idea where the genes go.

«In addition to the new insights into plant cell microtubule organization, these observations of GCP - WD function will be of interest to scientists studying microtubules in animals, where GCP - WD has been challenging to observe it in action,» Ehrhardt added.

The public can get involved in restoration through the UM Rescue - a-Reef program, where citizen scientists help plant nursery - grown corals onto depleted reefs alongside scientists.

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated — in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

Scientists have found vivid evidence of climate change in Southern California's Santa Rosa Mountains, where the dominant plant species are creeping up the slopes as the weather gets warmer.

In the UF / IFAS study, scientists wanted to know how and why some butterflies survive wildfires and prescribed burns, particularly where the insect feeds and lays eggs on fire - adapted plants.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

She is on leave from a position as a research scientist at the University of Wyoming where she researches the effects of climate change on plants and ecosystems.

The scientists were particularly interested in how we think about plants — where our mind tends to put them in the grand scheme of things.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

The NSF sponsored the January workshop and essentially asked plant scientists where the field ought to be in a decade.

Become a plant milk mad scientist and see where you end up.

Become a plant milk mad scientist and see where you end up — your own signature milk blend is waiting to be discovered!

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

Told from the viewpoint of a talking tree on the plantation where George Washington Carver spent his young childhood, this handsome picture - book biography tells how the famous African American scientist always nurtured plants and studied them, but the law did not allow black children to go to school.

The Queens Museum's surrounding landscape serves as a site for applied fieldwork where participants will engage in EPA's embodied scientist training for cultivating plant - human relations and interspecies alliances.

Many scientists previously thought the reduction in sunlight lowered the Earth's temperature and slowed plant and soil respiration, a process where plants and soil emit CO2.

To prevent a new mass extinction of the world's animal and plant life, scientists need to understand threats to biodiversity, where they occur, and how quickly change is happening.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that at the same moment that scientists have concluded that we are now living in the Anthropocene, the age of humans, there has been a resurgence of interest in rewilding, the large - scale restoration of nature and the reintroduction of plants and animals (particularly large carnivores) by people to areas where they once thrived.

In an effort to save the iconic Joshua trees from uncertain doom, scientists are already considering relocating their seedlings to areas where the plants might endure.

Scientists are working on an app that would let users simply snap photos of a plant's leaves and automatically upload the information to a central database where it could be accessed for research, helping scientists follow what's happening with our natural world as the climatScientists are working on an app that would let users simply snap photos of a plant's leaves and automatically upload the information to a central database where it could be accessed for research, helping scientists follow what's happening with our natural world as the climatscientists follow what's happening with our natural world as the climate changes.

So about two thirds of the emissions of CO2 are treated like biomass and considered carbon neutral, which many scientists dispute, because these plants are pumping out CO2 now, where in a natural cycle they might take decades to do so.

«For too long we've thought of treatment plants as places where we remove organic matter and waste nitrogen,» one of the scientists states.

For many years, scientists have looked into pumping carbon dioxide deep underground, where it could be stored for thousands of years, to reduce levels emitted from power plants.