• The Environmental & Plant Biology Ph.D. graduate program provides educational and research experience in plant biology from the molecular to the organismal and ecosystem levels. (ohio.edu)
  • Most students are trained within three general areas of study: plant ecology, plant systematics and evolution, or plant molecular and cellular biology. (ohio.edu)
  • A Ph.D. with Molecular and Cellular Biology and Plant Biology also is offered. (ohio.edu)
  • BMC Plant Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of plant biology, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research. (phys.org)
  • The Molecular and Cellular Biology program offers graduate study leading to the Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in molecular and cellular biology . (ohio.edu)
  • However, a required core curriculum consists of a year of Biochemistry (CHEM 5901, 5902), Advanced Cell Biology (MCB 7600), Molecular Biology (MCB 7200), Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory (MCB 7300), Biological Research and Science Ethics (PBIO 5170) and Scientific Writing (PBIO 5180). (ohio.edu)
  • Students are required to register for MCB 7410 Seminar in Molecular and Cellular Biology when offered and must present at least one seminar each year. (ohio.edu)
  • A student must maintain a 3.0 GPA to remain in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program and to graduate. (ohio.edu)
  • The committee will be chaired by the student's adviser and must have at least four faculty members, at least three (3) of whom are Molecular and Cellular Biology faculty. (ohio.edu)
  • We constantly try to identify new proteins that are involved in plant immunity, and use molecular techniques to understand their interaction partners and how they work together. (edu.au)
  • We study evolutionary processes and conservation biology as well as molecular plant biology. (lu.se)
  • From the genomes we can also get molecular data to see how the plants evolve. (lu.se)
  • a deep knowledge and understanding of how plants function at different levels of organization, from molecular biology to ecophysiological level, including: the structure and properties of cells, the life processes and their regulation, genome structure, function and evolution, and plant development and reproduction systems. (lu.se)
  • The plant response to biotic and abiotic stress has been studied for many years, but the molecular mechanism controlling touch-signalling in plants is not well understood. (lu.se)
  • The CALS School of Integrative of Plant Science (SIPS) encompasses five fields: Horticulture, Plant Biology, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, and Soil and Crop Sciences. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • Chapters within the second section will consider the use and inter relationships of data integration, systems biology, genetics, genomics, metabolomics, chemometrics and biostatisitcs. (ellibs.com)
  • On May 6th, 2023 we had a lovely ceremony celebrating our graduates in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. (ncsu.edu)
  • The Swiss federal government's ethics committee on non-human biotechnology has mapped out guidelines to help granting agencies decide which research applications deeply offend the dignity of plants - and hence become unfundable. (nature.com)
  • All plant biotechnology grant applications must now include a paragraph explaining the extent to which plant dignity is considered. (nature.com)
  • Keller sees the issue as providing another tool for opponents to argue against any form of plant biotechnology, which is already very difficult to conduct in Switzerland. (nature.com)
  • Our undergraduate and graduate students participate in research projects across an array of plant and microbiology disciplines - everything from biotechnology and cell biology to ecology and systematics. (ncsu.edu)
  • This module explores current topics in plant cell biology. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The application of modern techniques in cell biology is included and so this module is also of value to those with a broad interest in cell biology. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • This module explores, in depth, selected topics in plant cell biology that are basic to our understanding of the way in which plant cells develop, function and interact with each other and with their surroundings. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Additionally you will be asked to give a 30 minute presentation based on an extensive review of the literature addressing the question: The importance of Plant Cell Biology research in the development of phytoremediation and/or biofortification technologies. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • A student may be co-advised by two Plant Biology tenure-track faculty members. (ohio.edu)
  • At least one faculty member must not be associated with the graduate program of the home Environmental & Plant Biology Department. (ohio.edu)
  • School faculty also contribute to the Biology, Global Development, and Viticulture & Enology majors. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • Summer short courses in organismic plant biology bring distinguished faculty, a world-class living collection, and a state-of-the-art teaching microscopy laboratory together to give students from around the world an immersive learning experience. (harvard.edu)
  • The project associated with this position is a collaborative effort between the Moghe Lab and the labs of Drs. Jocelyn Rose (Cornell University) and Arjun Khakhar (Colorado State University), integrating aspects of plant physiology, crop engineering and synthetic biology. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • Plant Physiology and Development (2014) Taiz et al. (lu.se)
  • Arabidopsis plants mutated in DMR6 and DLO1 , which encode 2-oxoglutarate iron-dependent SA-oxygenases, are hyperresistant to biotrophs but show a strong growth reduction. (uu.nl)
  • The chapters are written by specialists and cover different ranges of plants: from model Arabidopsis and ferns to more important crops such as oil-crops, peas, tomato, tobacco, grasses, barley and wheat. (novapublishers.com)
  • They used a mutant form of the model plant Arabidopsis with low efficiency photosynthesis (the chlorophyll a oxygenase / chlorina1 plant) to demonstrate that a reduced rate of photosynthesis delays the juvenile-to-adult phase transition. (elifesciences.org)
  • To serve the needs of the growing number of engineers in this field, SBE offered the first Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution, and Design (SEED) conference in 2014. (aiche.org)
  • In the article "Evolution of a non-flying mammal-dependent pollination system in Asian Mucuna (Fabaceae)" author S. Kobayashi summarizes the available knowledge of pollination in Asian Mucuna (Fabaceae), a genus mainly distributed in the tropics, and discusses the evolution of plants pollinated by non-flying mammals in Asia. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • Plant genome structure and evolution, especially the nature of rearrangements and the contributions of transposable elements. (uga.edu)
  • The rapid evolution of complex disease resistance loci in plants. (uga.edu)
  • 2012. "Morphological Evolution in Land Plants: New Designs with Old Genes. (jove.com)
  • During land plant evolution, a variety of different tree constructions evolved and their constructional principles are a subject of ongoing research. (springer.com)
  • Understand Cannabis as a diversifying plant, including the taxonomic confusion, human influence, and natural evolution. (uvm.edu)
  • Our lab is interested in predictive biology of plant specialized metabolism to enable better characterization of the vast phytochemical diversity, and to identify novel genetic strategies for making sustainable agrochemicals and nature-derived drugs. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • We study the plants' systems for control of growth, development, transport and metabolism, and their responses against environmental stresses, both abiotic and biotic. (lu.se)
  • The research group Plant Biology focuses on evolutionary processes, distribution of plant populations in space and time and interaction between plants and between plants and the environment. (lu.se)
  • By analyzing and classifying the plants we try to explain their evolutionary relationship. (lu.se)
  • SBE members created the first International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering (ICPSBB), which was held Dec. 16-18, 2016. (aiche.org)
  • Plant Biology is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the German Society for Plant Sciences and the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is located within the Plant Biology Department in the Miller Plant Sciences Building. (uga.edu)
  • Graduate and undergraduate students with interests ranging from the agricultural sciences to zoology use herbarium material to identify plants and determine plant locations. (uga.edu)
  • Bioplastics technology firm Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. has opened a major bio-feedstocks plant through a joint venture in Gresik, Indonesia. (plasticsnews.com)
  • The School offers the multidisciplinary undergraduate major in the Plant Sciences and is also home to the Agricultural Sciences major. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • A student with a Ph.D. in plant biology could work at a college or university, teaching or doing research in a variety of specialty areas. (ohio.edu)
  • PLOS Biology provides an Open Access platform to showcase your best research and commentary across all areas of biological science. (plos.org)
  • Although the field encompasses both plant and mammalian cells, in recent years, research has targeted mainly mammalian cells. (aiche.org)
  • The Herbarium is an essential resource for Plant Biologists, Ecologists and Researchers on Global Change, who work with these research collections of pressed, dried, and carefully labeled and classified plant specimens. (uga.edu)
  • Advancing discoveries in plant research is essential to civilization, and that's exactly what we do. (ncsu.edu)
  • A reader can find answers to questions such as: how can CAPS markers be easily developed for their research and how can they be applied to a wide range of plants? (novapublishers.com)
  • A directory of all members of the Research School of Biology. (edu.au)
  • We do research in different research groups at the Department of Biology. (lu.se)
  • You can choose from studying the smallest constituents of matter and their interactions within theoretical high energy physics via nuclear and solid state physics within mathematical physics, all the way to protein folding and plant growth within biophysics and computational biology. (lu.se)
  • You have a lot of freedom to tailor your own studies, but we have also put together some strong specialisations: Biophysics and Computational Biology, Nuclear Physics, Solid State Physics, Nanophysice, Atomic Physics and Theoretical High Energy Physics. (lu.se)
  • Plants, like other higher organisms, progress through a series of developmental phases, and the correct timing of these phase changes is critical for growth and reproduction, and thus for survival in the natural environment. (elifesciences.org)
  • The biology of time: dynamic responses of cell types to developmental, circadian and environmental cues. (bvsalud.org)
  • As sessile organisms, plants are finely tuned to respond dynamically to developmental, circadian and environmental cues . (bvsalud.org)
  • i) First, we discuss how studying plant cell identity can reveal developmental trajectories hidden in pseudotime. (bvsalud.org)
  • For many outdoor workers (and some who work indoors), contact with poisonous plants is a common work hazard. (cdc.gov)
  • An estimated 85% of the population are prone to developing allergies to poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other poisonous plants (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Poison ivy and related poisonous plants grow in the United States and throughout the world, transferring easily to people when plants touch the skin. (cdc.gov)
  • Along with contact with the skin, workers can get exposed to plant toxins by breathing in poisonous plant matter (inhalation) or by eating the plant or getting the plant toxin into their mouth (ingestion) from hands, tools, equipment, or other surfaces containing the toxin. (cdc.gov)
  • As previously noted, the United States has a wide variety of poisonous plants. (cdc.gov)
  • While we know a lot about poisonous plants and their risk to certain workers, many questions remain, such as the relationship between a worker's age, health status, environmental conditions, and their susceptibility to poisonous plants. (cdc.gov)
  • Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change is being developed to disseminate the scientific understanding, knowledge, and significant innovative findings to researchers, academics, industrialists, policy makers and the public worldwide associated with the plant biology and agricultural plant disciplines. (elsevier.com)
  • Hydroponics is a technique of growing plants in water instead of using soil. (odu.edu)
  • Hydroponic strawberries look pretty when they grow, taste great, and are quicker to grow than fruits on soil-based plants," said Horth. (odu.edu)
  • The team of scientists taught the students and staff how to plant basil, sunflowers, peppers, tomatoes, peas in the soil. (odu.edu)
  • Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap and the pitcher plant (Figure 2), grow in bogs where the soil is low in nitrogen. (lumenlearning.com)
  • The special niche of plants is to combine water and nutrients from the soil with light and gases from the air, this takes place as the plants go through their life cycle, grow and develop. (lu.se)
  • Future environmental and/or weather changes (higher heat, drought, rainfall, soil composition, increased carbon dioxide levels, etc.) may change the types and potency of both plant and animal allergens, toxins and/or poisons (12-13). (cdc.gov)
  • The committee does not consider that genetic engineering of plants automatically falls into this category, but its majority view holds that it would if the genetic modification caused plants to 'lose their independence' - for example by interfering with their capacity to reproduce. (nature.com)
  • And yet, there are about as many plant species as animals species that are considered to be critically endangered by extinction (and there would probably be many more if the data were available). (plos.org)
  • Well, it turns out that this impact, at the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and Paleogene (Pg) periods, has been implicated in the extinction of approximately half of all plant species that existed in North America at the time. (plos.org)
  • The primary goal of Blonder and colleagues' work was to determine whether plant species that went extinct during the K-Pg mass extinction event were non-random with respect to their traits relative to those that persisted. (plos.org)
  • Taking their cue from studies on extant plant species and their distributions, Blonder and colleagues measured two key plant leaf traits-leaf mass per area (LMA, indicating the amount of carbon invested per leaf area) and leaf minor vein density (VD, indicating the ability to move carbon and water in and out of leaves)-on hundreds of fossilized plant leaves. (plos.org)
  • These two traits provide insights into where a given plant species is along the "leaf economics spectrum. (plos.org)
  • Many tropical plant species have exceptionally broad leaves to maximize the capture of sunlight. (lumenlearning.com)
  • Other species are epiphytes: plants that grow on other plants that serve as a physical support. (lumenlearning.com)
  • Poison ivy and a related Toxicodendron species are considered a public health concern because they cause contact dermatitis, an inflammation of the skin caused by skin to plant contact (12). (cdc.gov)
  • As an industry-leading credential, UVM's Cannabis Plant Biology Professional Certificate prepares professionals to understand the systems, processes, facilities, and equipment needed to produce Cannabis-based products, including hemp oils enriched in cannabidiol (CBD). (uvm.edu)
  • The statement has confused plant geneticists, who point out the contrast with traditional plant-hybridization technologies, for example in roses, which require male sterility, and the commercial development of seedless fruits. (nature.com)
  • Plant Metabolomics is an essential purchase for plant scientists, plant geneticists and physiologists. (ellibs.com)
  • Plant small RNAs: advancement in the understanding of biogenesis and role in plant development. (nature.com)
  • According to Sistema.bio, the advancements in biogas technology and increased production capacity will play a pivotal role in achieving sustainable development goals, promoting environmental conservation, and accelerating the transition to decarbonized agriculture. (co.ke)
  • How do plants determine which stage of development they are at? (elifesciences.org)
  • The juvenile vegetative phase has a critical role in plant development. (elifesciences.org)
  • Juvenile plants rapidly increase their photosynthetic capacity, size and mass to ensure maximum productivity, but are incapable of initiating reproductive development. (elifesciences.org)
  • An unadvised student cannot remain in the Plant Biology graduate program beyond this time limit. (ohio.edu)
  • This PBS site has an excellent flash animation of the molecules involved in photosynthesis and how they travel from human to plant to atmosphere. (tutor.com)
  • After germination, plants start to accumulate sugars through photosynthesis and, as they grow older, the overall photosynthetic output of the shoot increases (green bar). (elifesciences.org)
  • Medscape has a detailed explanation of chlorophyll, but all you really need to know is that it's the secret to that cool thing plants do: photosynthesis, or turning sunlight into energy. (medscape.com)
  • The conference involved high-caliber keynotes and invited speakers, and was generously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE), which view plant synthetic biology as an emerging. (aiche.org)
  • At Teens with a Purpose, located in Downtown Norfolk, Horth introduced staff and teenagers to gardening and some new technological ways to plant more produce thanks to a science grant from NASA or Virginia Space Grant Consortium. (odu.edu)
  • Jameson made time to help the staff and young people at Teens with a Purpose while completing his Bachelor of Science in marine biology this August. (odu.edu)
  • The final section of the book will look at the use of metabolomics in food science, plant ecology, biodiversity and bioprocessing. (ellibs.com)
  • Students must be 18 years of age or older, have a bachelor's degree, and have completed college-level foundational science courses in Biology. (uvm.edu)
  • But scientists don't know what it means," says Beat Keller of the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich who is running the first field trial - of disease-resistant corn (maize) - to be approved under the new legislation. (nature.com)
  • At the moment not even authorities who decide on grants know what the 'dignity of plants' really means," says Markus Schefer, a constitution lawyer at the University of Basel and a member of the ethics committee. (nature.com)
  • The University of Georgia Herbarium was founded in the 1920s, and is one of the largest herbaria in the southeastern United States with over 270,000 sheets of vascular plants from around the world. (uga.edu)
  • This advertisement seeks to fill an open postdoctoral position in the Moghe Lab in the Plant Biology Section at Cornell University. (academicjobsonline.org)
  • When it comes to the ethics of experimenting on living subjects, plant biologists have had cause for a certain smugness. (nature.com)
  • A tricky ethical question for Swiss plant biologists. (nature.com)
  • For the first time, Penn State researchers have identified a gene that controls flowering in cacao, a discovery that may help accelerate breeding efforts aimed at improving the disease-ridden plant, they suggested. (phys.org)
  • Although most people might be bewildered that a discussion on how to define 'plant dignity' should be taking place at all, the stakes for Swiss plant scientists are high. (nature.com)
  • It provides an understanding of the unique features of plant cells and of the cellular mechanisms that allow plants to interact with their environment. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Responses at the cellular level to important environmental problems encountered worldwide are discussed and the mechanisms plants use to adapt and survive are covered. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Is an 'investigation' into plant hybridization. (tutor.com)
  • In tropical rainforests, light is often scarce, since many trees and plants grow close together and block much of the sunlight from reaching the forest floor. (lumenlearning.com)
  • The paper summarizes allelopathy and allelobiosis in inter-specific, intra-specific, plant-microorganism, and plant-insect context, and discusses the involved substances, their mechanisms, as well as environmental factors influencing allelopathic/signal molecule production and spread. (deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de)
  • It is a fascinating area because the pathogens always seek to evolve new proteins to overcome host immunity, and the plants must change their receptors and use innovative mechanisms to trap the pathogens. (edu.au)
  • This program is intended to be a unique experience for students to develop a broad understanding of Cannabis, with more advanced concepts relevant to plant biology, agriculture, and pharmacology. (uvm.edu)
  • Plants have evolved an elaborate immune system to combat microbial pathogens. (uu.nl)
  • On the other hand, the plants can become more resistant to insect pests and pathogens. (lu.se)
  • All students are exposed to the national and international plant biology community through colloquia, seminars, and scientific meetings that will aid them in achieving their post-Ph.D. career goals. (ohio.edu)
  • Biology seminars are usually held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons in Room 237, Lasry Center for Bioscience. (clarku.edu)
  • Synthetic biology can be broadly defined as technologies that accelerate the process of genetically engineering biological systems. (aiche.org)