Sentences with phrase «which plant scientists»

We examine a partnership in which plant scientists served as online mentors to teams conducting plant investigations.

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Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

Im asking mr. hawkins who made and designed the human brain which the scientist can not make an exact copy of it, even plants and flowers.

«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the effects of plant life on humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press release.

One of which is the low yield resulting to the disruption of the native structure of the rice plant» said Cristino Panerio, National Coordinator of farmer - scientist group MASIPAG.

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

Soviet scientists took a different approach, researching «medicinal botanicals,» or whole plant - based medicines, and bacteriophage therapies, which took advantage of viruses that attack bacteria.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

By planting the same plant species and genotypes in different environments, scientists can identify which ones perform best and are most likely to survive changing conditions.

To build a family tree for the orchids, the scientists sequenced genes in the green structures, called chloroplasts, in which plants transform solar energy into sugar.

Working with scientists from the Moorea Biocode Project, which aims to create a complete inventory of the island's species, Liittschwager photographed more than 600 different plants and animals here.

Crops and weeds from this plant family, which includes tobacco, produce chemicals such as nicotine that deter feeding by most insects, but not M. sexta, which makes its physiology especially interesting to scientists.

UF / IFAS aquatic plant scientist Lyn Gettys is compiling data to quantify the seriousness the plant — which resembles a lily — poses to canals.

The cause of this dry season «greening up» has been debated; many scientists have pinned it on extra sunlight or on drought, which they say could make plants more efficient photosynthesizers.

For years, scientists have assumed that herbivores and plants are locked into evolutionary competition in which a plant evolves a defense, the herbivore evolves a workaround, and so on.

Using a combination of systems biology and bioinformatic techniques, the scientists cleverly isolated proteins, which, when mutated, abolished the plant's ability to respond to CO2 stress.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rplant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rPlant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

A scientist has found that a thorny, palmlike plant in Liberia seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes, which are known to contain diamonds.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

In one of the first studies of its type, scientists found that the way in which plants arrange their flowers affects the flight patterns taken by foraging bees.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

Scientists tested for radioactivity at eight different beaches within 100 kilometers of the plant, which experienced three reactor meltdowns when an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, knocked out its power.

These changes in gene expression can help explain instances in which the yield is unaffected, but a slight reduction has taken place in the plant which scientists can not pinpoint.

In a time during which more scientists are investigating plant compounds to develop drugs to improve our quality of life or treat illnesses, all inhabitants of this planet lose out, including those who have never heard of INBio.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

A team of scientists has now identified proteins, which play a key role in the production of rubber in the plant.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plants.

However, the scientists speculate that electric signals which are transmitted via the vascular system of plants, so - called vascular bundles, play an important role.

Although the complete transformation of soil ingredients into true terra preta may take several years, soil scientists have shown that the mixture can have immediate benefits when added to nutrient - poor soils.Experiments outside of Manaus have shown that the yield in plots treated with charcoal and fertilizer (which contains plant nutrients), a mix similar in composition to terra preta, was double the yield of plots treated with fertilizer alone.

Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery - white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants, which are part of the Garden's national collection of European Saxifraga species.

Jerry Glover, a soil scientist, shows off a perennial wheatgrass plant's long roots, which grow deeper than annual plants» roots, improving soil structure and reducing erosion.

Moreover, the scientists showed that calcium signaling can be studied directly in intact plants in different physiological and ecological contexts, which helps to better understand its role as a secondary messenger in plants.

In order to visualize this signal, the scientists performed experiments with transgenic Arabidopsis plants which were genetically modified to express a protein in the cytosol, the liquid inside the cells, which breaks down and releases light energy after it has bound calcium ions.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

This discovery, which could enable scientists to engineer crop plants that more efficiently harness the energy of the Sun, will be published online by the journal Science.

The Scientist reports the postponement until next year of the 5th European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) conference, which was originally scheduled for above the Arctic Circle, near Muonio in Lapland.

Scientists from the universities of Granada and Almería have now carried out an exhaustive analysis of the populations of this species, and have observed that the plants found in Málaga differ significantly from those found in Granada: they have flowers with a long and straight spur, which are uniform in colour and intensely violet, except for a yellow spot at the entrance to the tube of the corolla (the area called the palate), with subtle violet veins.

The recommendation for the $ 290 million FLEX mission, which would launch in 2022, is a sign of how plant fluorescence has become one of the most exciting new remote sensing signals for Earth scientists.

But some plants can capture more photons because of energy - efficient genes, which has led scientists to seek ways of inserting those genes into food crops to increase crop yields exponentially.

Salk Institute scientists studying a plant protein called SOBER1 recently discovered one mechanism by which, counterintuitively, plants seem to render themselves less resistant to infection.

«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.

Now the scientists installed a degasing pipe which is the heart of the new pilot plant: Deep water enters a pipe at 61m depth.

the scientists could show that plant which are wounded by insects can transfer defense signals via the so - called dodder bridges to the neighboring plants.

Scientists have in the past focused on above - ground characteristics, primarily leaf traits and the efficiency with which plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis, he said.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

Scientists worry that a runaway «positive feedback» loop, in which one event reinforces or strengthens the next, is already taking place, with fewer plants leading to less rain, leading to still fewer plants, and so on.

Here, just a five - minute limo ride from Beverly Hills, paleontologists have over the last century removed some 3.5 million fossilized animals and plants from the La Brea «matrix» — scientists» term for the asphalt, clay, and sand mix in which the old bones are found.

«I strongly believe there's a way to show the birds that the PV panels are solid surfaces, not water,» said Ileene Anderson, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is preparing to sue over Yuma clapper rail mortality at solar power plants.