Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...cience for biochemistry, biophysics, evolution and plant physiology. Among those who attended Van Niel's summer course were Stanford undergraduates and scientists from a variety of disciplines. The course influenced the careers of many researchers, including several who became leaders in establishing ...Grant from GE Foundation to University of Houston to strengthen math, tech 'pipeline'
...ts and application examples. GE also plans to host plant tours to showcase the technology in place in today's competitive energy environment....Conservation International & SC Johnson invest in Ecuador's rainforest to offset climate impacts
...stal rainforest that is home to a number of unique plant and animal species, including the jaguar, several small cat species, the long wattled umbrella bird, the giant anteater and the threatened mantled Howler monkey. "It is our responsibility as a global company to make good choices for business and the...Salt-tolerant rice requires careful selection
...variety of environmental circumstances by means of plant breeding. For example, he discovered that in general breeding is best directed towards varieties that are adapted to a wide range of conditions and whose performance is not fertiliser dependent. However for cultivation on silt soils, only varieties w...Scientists 'beef up' plant-dwelling bacteria to boost phytoremediation
...lective growth media containing toluene to confirm plant colonization by the so called "ENDEGRADER" bacteri...fficient degradation by endophytic bacteria in the plant tissue," van der Lelie said. The scientists have already isolated 150 bacterial species that live as...Four IU professors are 2004 Guggenheim Fellows
...ieseberg says will provide a much-needed update to plant biology texts currently available to botanical students and researchers. A leader in plant population genetics and evolution, Rieseberg plans to integrate much of his own scholarly work into ...Invasive species: A few bucks and a click away
...ions of dollars to clean up the waterways, yet the plant continues to spread across the globe, establishing... the worst-case scenario of a particular animal or plant escaping into the wild. Deep Sea Corals Also in this month's issue of Frontiers in Ecology and th...American Society of Plant Biologists offers developing nations free access to science journals
...tists in nearly 70 poor nations free access to its plant science journals: Plant Physiology and The Plant C...committed to sharing the most current knowledge in plant science to help address fundamental needs of people throughout the world for food." ASPB's p...'Knock out' rose receives Texas superstar and earthkind designation
...dapted, highest performing and most pest-resistant plant materials are designated Texas Superstars, and should include the Texas Superstar pot label," he said. Knock Out was also named an EarthKind rose by Texas A&M horticulturists this year. Only a few roses receive the EarthKind designation. Winners not...Researchers probe link between nanotechnology and health
...ltrafine particles, including automotive and power plant emissions and dust from the World Trade Center disaster. What's different about nanotechnology is that these particles are man-made into a well-defined size, down to a billionth of a meter, and appear to seep all the way into the mitochondria, or ene...Shared gene switch for all plants found
...st plants that made it onto land has been found by plant biologists at UC Davis. A family of genes required...earcher Sandra Floyd and John Bowman, professor of plant biology at UC Davis. The mechanism depends on microRNAs, short pieces of RNA that switch genes off...Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
...cs Bio-based plastics, which are often made from plant oil, win praise for their environmental friendliness, but structurally, they generally lack sufficient stiffness and strength for some applications. Now, researchers at Michigan State University have merged bio-based plastics with nanoreinforcements,...Oldest-known arm bone found in Pennsylvania
...ks is fossil evidence of an ecosystem teeming with plant and animal life. "We found a number of interesting fossils at the site," Daeschler said, "but the significance of this specimen went unnoticed for several years because only a small portion of the bone was exposed and most of it lay encased in ...For the sake of land and climate, coaxing soil to soak up carbon
...est Service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will plant 72 pots containing various controlled mixtures of soil and catalysts....Ferns diversified in shadow of flowering plants
...n concurrent analyses of both the fossil record of plant species as well as genetic studies of existing species. They analyzed the DNA sequences of telltale genes in ferns and angiosperms and found family trees charting the relationships among ferns and angiosperms, which revealed their evolutionary histor......they do and do not eat, a behavior that can affect plant types in the community. The researchers first o...ific genotype. "In contrast to the idea that plant genetics effects become weaker at the population, community, and ecosystem level, these results sugg...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
...15 miles southwest of Rome. "The spread of exotic plant and tree diseases is not new, but this is the firs...ic. They ruled out the introduction of an infected plant since exotic species had not been planted in the forest, except for a small group of eucalyptus tree...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
...ay and age, scientists have to consider that a new plant pathogen like this could be a deliberate introduct...phid, are natural carriers and vectors of a lot of plant pathogens." The soybean aphid colonizes soybeans, but it carries several viruses that harm other cro...Scientists develop new cloning technique that dramatically shortens the search for genes
A single strand of plant or animal DNA may contain tens of thousands of gen...ies and Sciences, is an authority on bacterial and plant molecular biology. She and her colleagues used the new cloning technique to isolate and identify a g...Devastating parasitic weed may be felled by toxin borrowed from flies
...eddine Hamamouch of Morocco, a doctoral student in plant pathology, physiology, and weed science (PPWS) at ...just tried it to see what would happen." The model plant for the research is tobacco, which Virginia Tech researchers have used for other transgenic projects...