Botany in Biological News

American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century

... (SLA) has selected the American Journal of botany as one of the 10 most influential journals of ... in a field of 13 nominated journals of botany and was recently selected as one of the top 100. ... is an enormous honor for the American Journal of botany , to be in the company of such distinguished ...

Tahitian vanilla originated in Maya forests, says UC Riverside botanist

... of genetics in UC Riverside's Department of botany and Plant Sciences , claims to have traced ... In the August issue of the American Journal of botany , Lubinsky and colleagues use genetic and ... professor of systematics in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences and a coauthor on the research ...

Smithsonian scientist receives 2008 Medal for Excellence in tropical botany

... Jos Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical botany April 26, 2008. Laurance J. Dorr, representing ... at the Smithsonian Institutions Department of botany for nearly half a century. In his honor, the Jos Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical botany is presented annually to a botanist and scholar ...

Springer and the New York Botanical Garden Press join forces to publish botanical journals

... The Botanical Review, Brittonia, and Economic botany beginning in 2008. The New York Botanical Garden ... and news. Interdisciplinary in scope, Economic botany bridges the gap between pure and applied botany by focusing on the uses of plants by people. The ...

Oklahoma researchers support biodiversity in biofuels production

... global issue for the Oct. 3 issue of Science magazine. Linda Wallace, OU botany professor, and Michael Palmer, OSU botany professor, believe biodiversity in biofuels production may contribute to ...

ESA to feature wide range of UW-Madison presentations

... reshaping the state's ecology and environment. Edited by UW-Madison botany and environmental studies professor Don Waller and Wright State University ... the specific causes and effects of change difficult to track. UW-Madison botany professor Don Waller and his research group are studying ecological ...

UF botanists: Flowering plants evolved very quickly into 5 groups

... include sunflowers and tomatoes. Doug and Pam Soltis, a UF professor of botany and curator at UFs Florida Museum of Natural History, respectively, also ... this diversification Darwins abominable mystery has been a hot topic in botany ever since. One of the reasons why its been hard to understand ...

Climbing to new heights in the forest canopy

... taken millions of years to accomplish. A recent article by Dr. Sandrine Isnard and Dr. Wendy Silk in the July issue of the American Journal of botany explores the logistics of this incredible ability. Climbing plants have fascinated biologists, including Charles Darwin, who wrote a provocative ...

Study finds DNA barcoding requires caution without closer examination

... article, "DNA Barcoding will Frequently Fail in Complicated Groups: An example in Wild Potatoes" in the June 2009 issue of the American Journal of botany . One of the critical issues surrounding the DNA barcoding debate is that using a section of DNA may not adequately distinguish among closely ...

Domestication of Capsicum annuum chile pepper provides insights into crop origin and evolution

... a fascinating glimpse into the past. A recent article by Dr. Seung-Chul Kim and colleagues in the June 2009 issue of the American Journal of botany explores the domestication of chiles. These hot peppers, found in everything from hot chocolate to salsa, have long played an important role in the ...

Isolated forest patches lose species, diversity

... of the ecological changes already under way in the patches of forest that remain, says study co-author Don Waller, a professor in the Department of botany and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison. "Things may look healthy, but over time we see an erosion of biodiversity," he says. ...

American Society for Microbiology honors Richard W. Castenholz

... a searchable website. His generosity in sharing cultures has been invaluable to the scientific community. . Dr. Castenholz received his Ph.D. in botany from Washington State University; he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. ...

Breakthrough made in assessing marine phytoplankton health

... and is a necessary nutrient that often limits the potential for marine phytoplankton growth," said Allen Milligan, an OSU assistant professor of botany and co-author of this study, which is being published in the journal Biogeosciences . "If forces such as global warming, circulation changes or ...

University of Florida study provides insight into evolution of first flowers

... and female parts. But a male pine cone has almost everything that a flower has in terms of its genetic wiring. Douglas Soltis, chairman of the UF botany department, emphasized that the study highlights the importance of studying primitive flowering plants such as the avocado to gain insight into the ...

UC Riverside geneticist receives highest honor from Botanical Society of America

... RIVERSIDE, Calif. Norman Ellstrand , a professor of genetics in UC Riverside's Department of botany and Plant Sciences , has been elected as one of this year's four Botanical Society of America (BSA) Merit Award recipients. The BSA Merit ...

Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought

... use in agriculture. Now new research from the laboratory of Sean Cutler , an assistant professor of plant cell biology in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, suggests the possibility of spraying stable synthetic chemicals on plants to enhance ...

International team finds key gene that allows plants to survive drought

... Lead author Sean Cutler is a former University of Toronto scientist who is now an assistant professor of plant cell biology in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. In addition to the University of Toronto and the University of California, ...

UC Riverside researcher names lichen after President Barack Obama

... sheep ranching began there in the 1850s." Knudsen, 58, has been working in the UCR Herbarium, a field research resource of the Department of botany and Plant Sciences , since 2004. A retired construction worker, he volunteers his time in the herbarium, where he has built a collection of more ...

New species of spiders discovered by UBC scientist in Papua New Guinea

... a new way to make a living by wandering around their habitat and pouncing like cats on their prey," says Wayne Maddison, a professor of zoology and botany and director of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC. Two of the jumping spiders' eight eyes have evolved to be large with high-resolution vision ...

UCR scientists identify stem-cell genes that help form plant organs

... within the SAM," said G. Venugopala Reddy , the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of plant cell biology in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences . "Since SAM stem-cells are responsible for forming plant organs and determining plant architecture, further analysis of their ...

Gene to reduce wheat yield losses

... biggest crop export. Dr Uauy has recently been appointed at JIC. He will lead a research collaboration with the National Institute of Agricultural botany (NIAB) designed to deliver practical benefits to agriculture. Research results will be made available to breeders, so they can be deployed into ...

Carnegie's Joe Berry elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

... in Chemistry from the University of California at Davis in 1963 and then his masters in soil science from Davis in 1966. He was awarded a Ph.D. in botany from the University of British Columbia in 1970. ...

Invasions by alien plants have been mapped in European Union

... Low levels of invasion also occur in the Mediterranean region except its coastline and irrigated fields", added Petr Pyek from the Institute of botany Průhonice, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. ...

To climate-change worries, add 1 more: Extended mercury threat

... in a warmer world. So suggests a paper that appears in a recent issue of the journal Oecologia . Sue Natali, a postdoctoral associate in botany at the University of Florida and the paper's lead author, compared mercury levels in soils under trees growing in air enriched with carbon dioxide to ...

Organic plant waste proves effective weed control for citrus trees

... use of chemicals for controlling weeds in citrus crops can affect physical and chemical properties and quality of fruits. Researchers from the botany Department at the National Research Center in Giza, Egypt recently published the results of a two-year study of 15-year-old mandarin trees. The study ...

University of Oklahoma researcher named 2008 AAAS Fellow

... technologies. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Zhou is a presidential professor in OU's Department of botany and Microbiology and director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics. Zhou has distinguished himself as an international leader in four ...

Researchers find nature's shut-off switch for cellulose production

... learning how to keep that switch turned on may be key to enhancing biomass production for plant-based biofuels. Nicholas Carpita, a professor of botany and plant pathology, said that small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs) play a normal role in plant development by shutting off genes involved in primary cell ...

UC Riverside rice geneticist receives high honor from US Department of Agriculture

... Dec. 5, in Rooms 205/206, Engineering II. Bailey-Serres, a professor of genetics in the Center for Plant Cell Biology and the Department of botany and Plant Sciences , is the lead recipient of the USDA award. She has been the principle investigator on three USDA-funded projects that led to the ...

Study a step toward disease-resistant crops, sustainability

... these genes better, we could engineer plants to be immune to most diseases," said principal investigator Guri Johal, an associate professor of botany and plant pathology. First using the corn genome, the method will add to the collection of useful alleles, or pairs of genes, that create certain ...

Expert recommends town councils to design low-allergy impact green spaces

... consider when designing green spaces with a low-allergy impact. That is the opinion of Paloma Carianos Gonzlez , researcher of the Department of botany of the University of Granada , who takes part in the Master Degree in "Gardening, Landscaping and Public Space" organized by the UGR . In ...

UC Riverside scientist to explore how vegetation affects urban heat islands

... human comfort and health risks, as well as how human decisions lead to this variation. Jenerette , an assistant professor in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences , will investigate the moderating effects of vegetation on urban heat islands. "I will be researching the potential for plants ...

Biologists, educators recognize excellence in evolution education

... that is also relevant to instructors. Dr. Moore earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Texas A&M University, a master's degree in botany from the University of Georgia, and his PhD in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles. Previous honors and awards for Moore ...

Reproducing early and often is the key to rapid evolution in plants

... evolutionary patterns," said senior author Michael Donoghue , the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Curator of botany at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History Long involved with the Tree of Life Web Project , which is attempting to reconstruct the "tree" ...

Prolonged effects of a warming anomaly on grasslands

... Professors Yiqi Luo, Linda Wallace and Rebecca Sherry in the Department of botany and Microbiology coauthored a paper with colleagues Jay Arnone and Paul Verburge at the Desert Research Institute; Dale Johnson from the University ...

'Biological clock' genes control plant growth

... and even fertility. "This is an incremental but important step in understanding how plants grow," said Todd Mockler, an assistant professor of botany at Oregon State University, and co-author of the report with colleagues at the University of California/San Diego and the Salk Institute for ...

UC Riverside botanist to study role of plants in southern California's drought

... Southern California's plants affect the region's drought. Louis Santiago , an assistant professor of physiological ecology in the Department of botany and Plant Sciences , will investigate which plant species in Southern California are most susceptible to drought and how their disappearance might ...

NSF approves $1.3M for OSU and OU microbes hunt

... Dr. Caroline Beller, assistant professor of education, are the lead researchers for the project at OSU. Dr. Lee Krumholz, associate professor of botany and microbiology, is the lead researcher at the University of Oklahoma. Of the total grant, $800,000 will go to OSU and $500,000 to OU. ...

72 new members chosen by Academy

... Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge CARRINGTON, JAMES C.; professor, department of botany and plant pathology, and director, center for genome research and biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis CARTER, EMILY A.; Arthur W. ...

Nitric oxide regulates plants as well as people

... of proteins and enzymes in plants. In collaborative work with the research group of Renu Deswal, a faculty member, and her doctoral student at the botany Department, University of Delhi, India, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist Autar Mattoo has identified 19 such targeted proteins and ...

Pioneers in small RNA research to present at UD symposium, April 16

... a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit Award and the Rosenstiel Award from Brandeis University. David Baulcombe earned a bachelor's degree in botany from Leeds University and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University and at the University ...