Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...set of universal laws that describe the rhythms of plant and animal life. The principles that he and his colleagues are discovering appear to reveal deep biological truths about everything from the way cells consume nutrients to the growth rates of trees to how deforestation could affect global levels of c...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...es molecular biologists, evolutionary geneticists, plant modelers and computer scientists. Scientists at No...ural variation in different genes, you can predict plant behavior," she said. William Hsu, assistant professor in computing and information sciences; Sanjoy ...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
...s in recognition of distinguished contributions to plant pathology or to the Society. The 10 members named ...ard. This award recognizes excellence in extension plant pathology. Karen-Beth Goldberg Scholthof, Texas A&M University, received the Excellence in Teachi...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
... the outside world. One project will examine how a plant evaluates the various cues of seasonal change so that it blooms when it has the best chance to reproduce successfully. A second project will try to unravel "ecological genomics," identifying the genetic linkages that draw species together into comple...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...ular systems in cyanobacteria, and then in a model plant and a moss species, these researchers want to dete...t gave rise to chloroplasts, the oxygen factory in plant cells. A half billion years ago cyanobacteria predated more complex organisms like multi-cellular p...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...l TITLE: Disruption of cholesterol homeostasis by plant sterols AUTHOR CONTACT: Helen H. Hobbs University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390, USA Phone: 214-648-6724; Fax: 214-648-7539; E-mail: helen.hobbs@utsouthwestern.edu View the PDF of this article at: h...APS Foundation names student travel award recipients
...designed to help students studying in the field of plant pathology present their work, either in an oral or...mbers advances the understanding of the science of plant pathology and its application to plant health....Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...n in soils by studying the lifetime of fine roots, plant matter decomposition rates, and the persistence of organic carbon in the soil in temperate forests. Using measurements of carbon-14 and other isotopes, Torn has overturned previous assumptions about the amount of carbon pumped underground by root gro...Endangered species list more bleak than originally thought
...ar animals are also at stake. Proctor cites a host plant vine that became locally extinct in Singapore, taking along with it a species of butterfly, Parantica aspasia, that was dependent on the vine for survival. "When we lose this vine, this beautiful butterfly dies off with it, and we'll never see it aga...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...hading mechanisms to avoid overheating and improve plant growth. The "speaking plant" approac...ight, inexpensive sensors are put directly on each plant to monitor the plant's water status, temperature, and growth rate. "We envision thes...Genetic map of important tree genes outlined
...ssed during tree growth, is among the best for any plant species. "This is an important fundamental step to...e studies that are possible with traditional model plant species, such as rice, corn, and Arabidopsis - a tiny plant in the mustard family that is the lab ra...Natural mineral locks up carbon dioxide
...rea is heavy with fossil fuel burning plants, each plant could pipe their carbon dioxide to a central treatment plant. ...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...tion, geographic proximity to the northern Ukraine plant or other surrogate measures of exposure, this stud...l dose, depending on the person's proximity to the plant at the time of the accident. These doses were all received within the first few months after the acc...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...tolerant," said David Salt, associate professor of plant molecular physiology in Purdue's horticulture depa...r and a doctoral student working with Salt. "For a plant to hyperaccumulate metal, it has to be able to tolerate metal toxicity." A nearly ubiquitous antiox...Anti-cancer compound in vegetables found to block late-stage breast-cancer cell growth
...e first report to show how the naturally occurring plant chemical sulforaphane can block late stages of the cancer process by disrupting components of the cell called microtubules," said Singletary, a professor in the department of food science and human nutrition. "We were surprised and pleased to find t...University of Arizona licenses patent for natural fungicide
... that cause some of the most economically damaging plant diseases in the world. Compared with other fungici... Michael E. Stanghellini, UA professor emeritus of plant pathology and now a professor at the University of California at Riverside, retired UA senior resear...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
..., encompassing how genes function in plants to how plant genomes evolved. Although the moss Physcomitrell...e pairs) is actually larger than that of the first plant genome to be determined: Arabidopsis thaliana, a simple flowering plant that plant scientists worldw...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...f life--mouse, puffer fish, fruit fly, worm--while plant genomics has suffered since only a closely related...quenced. This will be a triumph for international plant science." Mosses were among the first plants to colonize the land, 450 million years ago. They pre...Improving crops without genetic modification natural variation holds the key
Traditional plant breeders improve the quality and yield of crops by...limited by the available gene pool of a cultivated plant species and eventually hits a wall--reshuffling the same genetic variation can boost yield only so m......-hour day/night cycle, this allows the microscopic plant to maximize the amount of chemical energy it can extract during daylight. "In constant illumination, however, the biological clocks may keep shutting down photosynthesis in expectation of the darkness that never comes," says Johnson....