Sentences with phrase «with plant geneticists»

This is the result of a cooperation project of behavioral ecologist Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) with plant geneticists Birgit Ziegenhagen and Ronald Bialozyt from the Philipps - University Marburg.

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This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

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.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.

While you're busy decking the halls with boughs of holly this season, geneticists, plant pathologists and forestry professors are hard at work making better Christmas trees for the future.

And other plant researchers are very pleased: «This is a great paper... with great importance to agriculture,» says Steven Jacobsen, a plant geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

The discovery should help growers weed out bad seedlings, making cloning a viable option again, says Jerzy Paszkowski, a plant geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

[That] fits with the idea that multicellularity evolved separately [in plants and animals],» says plant geneticist Robert Martienssen of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

This ancestor «started off with a whole new set of duplicate genes,» says Michael Clegg, a plant geneticist at the University California, Irvine, who was not involved with the work.

In a 1987 Nature paper, a team led by plant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cplant geneticist Peter Meyer, then with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon cPlant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, showed that inserting a maize gene into a petunia enabled it to produce the pigment pelargonidin and take on a salmon color.

And the species» struggle to adapt and survive can make attempts to control the fertility of plants difficult, according to Steve Strauss, a tree geneticist at Oregon State University who has also consulted with ArborGen.

With multiyear field studies, Xue identified plant traits related to drought tolerance, which can be used by breeders to develop drought - tolerant wheat cultivars and geneticists to screen molecular markers and speed the breeding process.

For more than a century, geneticists have known that, in organisms that pair up to reproduce, most genes have a 50 - 50 chance of being inherited, as Gregor Mendel famously showed in the 19th century with pea plants.

Collaborators on GOBii include Susan McCouch and Mark Sorrells, professors of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University; Qi Sun, a senior research associate at Cornell's Computational Biology Service Unit; and Ed Buckler and Jean Luc Jannink, geneticists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

For molecular geneticist Katie Coats, that means working with the WSDA and WSU Puyallup plant pathologist Gary Chastagner to understand the genetics of the exotic plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death.