Sentences with phrase «with nematode»

The ocean floors are literally crawling with nematode worms.

[2] Infection with this nematode can lead to a poor quality crop and a decrease in yield of hops of 50 %.

Lithgow's recent work at the Buck Institute with the nematode C. elegans (a type of worm) has shown how iron accumulation can accelerate the aging process.

A sequence alignment of Plin2 and 3 from two selected vertebrates is compared with their nematode homologues (Fig. 1).

There have been several recent reports of life at great depths, with nematode worms found living 3 kilometres down in a gold mine, for instance.

The ocean floors are literally crawling with nematode worms.

Nine lines of Cavendish Grand Nain transformed with the nematode - derived Ced9 gene were also trialled, with one line remaining TR4 - free for the three years

«We grew soybean plants in a greenhouse, inoculated them with nematodes, and then used the assay to determine how many repeats each plant had.

Next, she infected plants missing the majority of their cytokinin receptors with nematodes.

This allowed the scientists to test different combinations of their experimental treatments, namely infestation with nematodes versus no infestation, and association with fungus versus no association.

The research holds promise in helping to develop new treatments for the more than 20 percent of the world's population infected with nematodes and for agricultural producers whose crops are destroyed by the pests.

Flea control with nematodes was least on natural turf and best on bare soil surfaces that had adequate moisture.

Those are conditions in which fleas survive poorly whether treated with nematodes or not, and also the most favorable conditions for nematode survival and activity.

Older dogs have more severe orbital infestations with nematodes located deep in the orbit sometimes adherent to the fascial tissues around the optic disk.

If you want to go a more natural route, try treating your yard with nematodes.

Earlier this year, I examined 29 young dogs presented to shelters for routine spay / neuter in Farmington and Aztec, New Mexico and found episcleral granulomas with nematodes in 3 dogs and microfilaria in a skin snip biopsy from one of the dogs with episcleral nematodes.

There's a natural, safe option here, too: spraying your yard with nematodes.

They had people who could help with nematodes, clay - mineral complexes, trace minerals, all subsets of soil, but no «soil» person.

Jim D is down with the nematodes and mistakes it for a duet with Barbra singing «On a Clear Day You Can See Forever».

Not exact matches

Roots infected with root - knot nematodes have obvious swellings or galls.

Populations of the virtually immobile root - knot nematodes did not appear to be correlated with landscape.

Japantoday.com reported Sept. 13 that the government of Japan opened the doors for fresh imports from Idaho for the first time since 2006, with Japanese officials citing reduced pest risks associated with the pale potato cyst nematode.

In the Kruglyak lab, however, Ben - David and fellow postdoc Alejandro Burga were doing a project that required crossing the usual lab nematodes with the DL238 strain from Hawaii.

That's how many lab C. elegans nematodes grow a normal body (left) with a wide, inner feeding tube (partly visible toward worm top).

In collaboration with scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York, he's imaging how the brain of a nematode develops.

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

He always thought of himself as more of a botanist and a nematode guy, studying how parasitic soil - dwelling worms interact with crop plants.

«But the nervous system in both nematode worms and humans is organized into small functional units called neural circuits, where neurons communicate with each other to control a simple outcome, such as behavior.»

Fortunately, breeders have identified soybean varieties with genetic resistance to the nematodes and have used them to create new resistant varieties.

Normally, P. luminescens targets insect larvae, with the help of parasitic nematode worms.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

In 2016, for example, scientists at Florida Atlantic University and the Scripps Research Institute for the first time induced seizures in nematodes, microscopic worms with just 302 brain cells.

It also took Ding deeper into his fundamental premise — «If RNAi remains as an effective antiviral defense in plants, insects and nematodes after their independent evolution for hundred millions of years, why would it stop working with mammals?»

With colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany), the KU Leuven researchers identified the metabolites that kill the nematodes.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

«Understanding how the nematode modulates its host is going to help us exploit new technologies to engineer plants with enhanced resistance to this terribly devastating pathogen,» Mitchum said.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

Scientists at the University of Bonn together with an international team discovered that nematodes produce a plant hormone to stimulate the growth of specific feeding cells in the roots.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

They also created Cavendish lines with Ced9, a nematode gene known to confer resistance to many kinds of plant - killing fungi.

The background image shows a picture of the nematode C. elegans with clumps of the Huntington's aggregates (bright green because they're tagged with green fluorescent protein) in the body wall muscle cells.

Drugs that activate this novel stress response pathway, which they call the mitochondrial - to - cytosolic stress response, protected both nematodes and cultured human cells with Huntington's disease from protein - folding damage.

Two projects will be done jointly with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm: Molecular biologist David Baillie of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, was awarded $ 6.73 million to study protein function in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and microbiologist Sherif Abou Elela of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, received $ 3.75 million to test modified nucleic acid technologies for determining gene function.

Needless to say, he was not pleased to learn that he was sharing his cecum (the segment of bowel from which the appendix dangles as a thin sac) with a pack of nematodes.

The genome shares about 60 % of its genes with the other invertebrates completely sequenced, such as the nematode and fruit fly, whereas about 5 % match sequences found only — up to now, at least — in the human, mouse, and puffer fish genomes.

Earlier, Dillin's group fingered the protein smk - 1 as a co-factor, which worked with daf - 16 to increase the life spans of nematodes (Caenorhabditis elegans).

With few exceptions, these cells still die, suggesting that, in nematodes, engulfment is not necessary for most programmed deaths.

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.