Sentences with phrase «wild tomato»

Genetic structure of the four wild tomato species in the Solanum peruvianum s.l. species complex
After graduation, I worked as a technician studying speciation in wild tomatoes and rapid adaptation in Trinidadian guppies before starting graduate school at the University of Toronto.
A higher number of chloroplasts gives wild tomatoes their darker green color.
To find the genes underlying this shift, researchers in the lab of Associate Professor Zachary Lippman at CSHL, compared the genomes of early - and late - flowering plants belonging to a species of furry, seed - filled wild tomato called S. galapagense.
In wild tomatoes, SlGLK2 increases the formation of chloroplasts, the compartments in plant cells that carry out photosynthesis.
This particular idea began two summers ago, when my oldest had a summer job at a natural restaurant (the Wild Tomato) in a local tourist town.
«It's still an indeterminate plant; it's about as close to a wild tomato as you can get,» Procacci says.
By analyzing natural variation between S. lycopersicum and a wild tomato species, the researchers identified the receptor behind this sensitivity, which they named Cuscuta receptor 1 (CuRe1).
Glaum and Kessler generated the model using data from a series of field experiments on the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes conducted by Kessler and his collaborators using the wild tomato species Solanum peruvianum.
The researchers measured both the release of herbivore - induced volatile organic compounds (HI - VOCs) by the wild tomato plants and pollinator visits at different levels of herbivory to determine how bee pollination changes as a function of the amount of herbivory experienced by a plant.
Many plants, including the wild tomato species used in this study, produce chemical compounds to repel insect pests and other hungry herbivores.
Therefore the researchers used soybean plants for their experiments; but thale cress, tobacco and wild tomato were also connected pairwise or in clusters with the parasite.
The wild tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium) genome sequence was developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
«If we can understand how these wild tomato relatives thrive in drought conditions, we can try to introduce those traits into cultivated tomatoes or other crops,» Rose said.
Sequencing the gigabase plant genome of the wild tomato species Solanum pennellii using Oxford Nanopore single molecule sequencing
A wild tomato plant, Solanum peruvianum, from field - study sites in the Rio Fortaleza Valley in the Ancash Province of Peru.The modeling study suggests that the herbivore - induced release of protective chemical compounds limits population growth of both the pollinator and the flowering plant, thereby temporarily and indirectly restricting the growth of herbivore populations and preventing extinction.
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