The workers at the space station use the water for drinking and growing plants. This water is part of them.
The new plants are designed to combat wheat stem rust a fungus that used to take out a fifth of the U s.'wheat crop at once during epidemics through the 1950s.
After their first plantings they may keep some of the grains to plant as next year's crops.
The plant is not radioactive it s only accelerated evolution with human selection. The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays
Companies that supply wood plant more than enough trees to cover very high future growth. It takes so long for trees to mature they really don't have a choice.
A GMO is a plant or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
The majority of GMO plants are made to resist you know who's herbicide. The local plants are now growing immune to the herbicide.
II doubt this massive experiment will prove any better than lead paint or asbestos. Contrary to what poor old misguided Joe up there says there have been over 600 studies published over a 30 year period in numerous respected scientific journals by various experts in the relevant field in good standing.
AND anaerobic decomposition as you would get with buried plant matter would produce methane which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
I suppose the new plant growth in the area previously covered by the river could offset that
All vegetation (trees brush plants) are killed in this pond area created. Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move
and most plants would die in a few weeks. Large trees however could survive for several decades thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores.
since plants will stop photosynthesizing immediately and this will affect the supply of food âÂ#Âoeon handã¢Â#Â
while ramping up major production of LFTR modular nuclear plants. Once you've got sufficient power online and enough resources to create a self-sustaining underground mining operation a civilization could theoretically thrive indefinitely underground without ever revisiting the surface again.
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Those plants died weak and thirsty during an epic drought last summer--the hottest year on record.
Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Get rid of coal plants? Where will you get your power? Windmills? Sure lets destroy the ecosystems of ridges
Not to mention the replacement of those trees with other plants that absorb CO2. Not to mention that the CO2 helps plants grow to feed the massive number of humans On earth. tripletiote and brian144
I'm with you guys bring on the Thorium! AGW is a scam. Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill!
since CO2 is good for plants ALL CO2 levels must be good. Or the canard regarding water vapor vs CO2.
The 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant should not deter governments from expanding nuclear power according to Hansen
but we're at such a point in our'advancement'that our diluted pollutants are reaching toxic levels. 1. Nuclear power plants emit dangerous radiation into the air and water during their DAILY operations.
and in our environment from nuclear meltdowns and nuclear power plants was discussed. The total amounts of deaths birth defects miscarriages heart attacks cancers etc. due to nuclear radiation is in the millions upon millions;
By the time one more nuclear plant is built the materials based energy revolution will change the face of energy production foreverchernobyl may have caused almost 1 million deaths according to a recent study.
The newest generations of nuclear power plants are some of the most well design and safest power plants in the world.
Animal and plant mutations are being found everywhere. There is no doubt about it. Man-made nuclear radiation is wreaking havoc on human genetics human health and our environment.
Here's a list of all nuclear power plant accidents: http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nuclear and radiation accidentsthe*4000 cancer number associated with Chernobyl is the number of cancers--not deaths--attributed to Chernobyl.
The radiation released resulted in an average dose of 1. 4 mrem to the two million people near the plant.
As further comparison you receive 3. 2 mrem from a chest X-ray âÂ#Âmore than twice the average dose of those received near the plant. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Three mile island accidentdo
Chernobyl and Fukushima were examples of plants built when scientist didn't even know about all of the elements we have now on the periodic table.
Putting plants into use is extensive. Nuclear plants were built with technology research and designed decades ago.
Chernobyl and Fukushima built in the sixties and finished in the seventies used technology invented in the fifties!
The nuclear plants finished recently (within the past decade) were built with technology developed in the seventies and eighties.
Transformers at the plants increase the voltage so it can be moved more efficiently to local substations
Plants would supply offpeak synfuel desalination EV charging and hot water ice making HVAC systems. By replacing expensive deadly and sickening destructive fossil fuels plant the rate of return on the investment to the nation as a whole in a kind of a FDR New deal would pay back at 40%per annum.
the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
What's at stake here aren't the genetically modified seeds that farmers buy and plant.
Parent plants are much more valuable than the GMO seeds farmers buy. A farmer who plants a crossbred GMO corn crop could keep the resulting seeds
The sequences of parent plants'genes represent some of the companies'most important intellectual property.
me to the plant s cavernous intake bay to show me what those lamps looked like in a previous life.
They found investors and built a small pilot plant in Berkeley then a larger one in Richmond.
By 2000 the Richmond plant had become a full-blown production facility and was running three shifts.
and logistical problems trying to open a plant there so he began exploring China. The country didn t have the recycling laws Japan did r that Europe was developing ut it did have interested companies in Biddle s vision.
He built a plant in Guangzhou in 2006 after contracting for a steady stream of e-waste.
That same year taking advantage of Europe s new legislation he built a plant in Austria that primarily recycles plastic from e-waste.
In 2010 he built the plant in England which targets mostly automotive plastics. Today MBA processes a million pounds of material a day more than 125000 tons a year.
Curious about why he couldn t get source material for his plant in Richmond Biddle traveled to China himself.
But the vagaries of sourcing material continued to haunt Biddle even after he opened plants in Europe and China.
In combination with bioenergy this results in carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere (owing to the previous carbon uptake of plants through photosynthesis)
Well-preserved informative plant fossils are few and far between. Specimens with reproductive organs are especially scarce
but are invaluable to understanding plant evolution and ancient diversity. When such fossils are unearthed they are lucky finds
The whitefly method provides a means of interfering with the plant-contamination process as well as the cultivation of plants that are altogether resistant to infection.
After exposing large numbers of a particular plant species to a specific whitefly-transmitted virus a researcher can then note which individual plants resisted infection and why.
or thousands of infected plants year-round by exposing them to whiteflies each week. Therefore the whitefly-assisted transmission method provides researchers with a powerful means for continued experimentation in developing plant defenses against the threat of whitefly-transmitted disease.
Polston said that she published this technique through Jove's video format because it was difficult to explain it through traditional text-only journals.
Existing air quality regulations and trends in clean energy technology are expected to reduce the amount of harmful nitrogen oxides (NOX) emitted by coal plants and cars over time.
Panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem researchever wonder what plants do
when you're not around? How about an entire forest or grassland? Not even the most dedicated plant researcher can be continuously present to track environmental effects on plant behavior
and so numerous tools have been developed to measure and quantify these effects. Time-lapse photography has been used to study many aspects of plant behavior
but typically only a few plants can be captured with a single camera at the desired level of detail.
This limitation has confined for the most part such observations to the laboratory. Recently however researchers have maximized both the scale
and resolution of time-lapse photography with the use of a novel robotic camera mount and software--enabling the detailed visualization of plant movements across a wide panoramic view.
This system greatly improves the utility of time-lapse photography by capturing interactions between the environment and a plant population in a single sequence.
The beauty of time-lapse is that we can make observations in the plant's time scale.
Changes in the habitat can be correlated with changes in the plant itself notes coauthor Janet Steven.
view to that of an individual plant. Environmental responses can be seen across a large population with the additional advantage of examining individual responses within the same population using one time-lapse sequence.
The indoor setup created a panorama three photos high by seven photos wide of a time-lapse sequence of a quick-growing variety of Brassica rapa plants.
Changes among the plants can be seen as they respond to cabbage white butterfly caterpillars and stinkbugs introduced during the experiment.
The helical movements or circumnutation of the plants is also evident. The outdoor setup was powered by solar panels
As Steven emphasizes The technique has amazing potential to study the importance of the environment on plant phenology and behavior.
Time-lapse photography has advanced the analysis of landscape change phenological responses and plant movement. Current research using the Gigapan system is investigating processes including plant response to grazing and precipitation patterns.
This new technique will be a powerful tool to allow researchers to simultaneously examine environmental influence over time across a population as well as at a high-resolution on a single plant and to do so with a minimum of manpower.
Additionally it will be useful in a number of other disciplines including geology archaeology biodiversity glaciology and rangeland ecosystem research.
Patrick Brown an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production
and crossing exotic lines with temperate-adapted lines to create lines that were photoperiod-insensitive for early maturity as well as shorter plants that could be harvested machine.
Getting a complete map of the traits researchers are interested most in--plant height and maturity--will help researchers unlock the diversity in the exotic lines
The case I always make is that over here we have grain sorghum where we've done almost all the plant breeding
and reliability were also big factors for small farmers in choosing a system for drip irrigation--an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to the base of each plant.
Nitrogen fixation the process by which nitrogen is converted to ammonia is vital for plants to survive
However only a very small number of plants most notably legumes (such as peas beans and lentils) have the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.
The vast majority of plants have to obtain nitrogen from the soil and for most crops currently being grown across the world this also means a reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
Professor Edward Cocking Director of The University of Nottingham's Centre for Crop Nitrogen fixation has developed a unique method of putting nitrogen-fixing bacteria into the cells of plant roots.
when he found a specific strain of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in sugar-cane which he discovered could intracellularly colonise all major crop plants.
This ground-breaking development potentially provides every cell in the plant with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen.
The implications for agriculture are enormous as this new technology can provide much of the plant's nitrogen needs.
Helping plants to naturally obtain the nitrogen they need is a key aspect of World Food security.
Applied to the cells of plants (intracellular) via the seed it provides every cell in the plant with the ability to fix nitrogen.
Plant seeds are coated with these bacteria in order to create a symbiotic mutually beneficial relationship and naturally produce nitrogen.
The University of Nottingham's Plant and Crop sciences Division is acclaimed internationally as a centre for fundamental and applied research underpinning its understanding of agriculture food production and quality and the natural environment.
The new technology platform can harness the plant's own genes to improve characteristics of sunflower develop genetic traits
and Plant science at NUI Galway and has been published in the journal BMC Plant Biology. Among oilseed crops sunflowers are one of the most important sources of edible vegetable oil for human consumption worldwide.
and discovering new traits in plants. According to Dr Chatterjee: Over the centuries the sunflower has been cultivated for traits such as yield.
The research breakthrough was part of a collaborative project between Bench Bio (India) URGV Lab INRA (France) NUI Galway Plant and Agribiosciences Research Centre (Ireland) and Advanta
Dr Chatterjee is involved also in research in the NUI Galway Plant and Agribiosciences Research Centre (PABC) to improve the bioenergy crop Miscanthus.
while dining on these pollutants the plant-like organisms could then be used to produce renewable biofuels or food for fish farms.
Potential food source derived from non-food plantsa team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as food crops.
Cellulose is the supporting material in plant cell walls and is the most common carbohydrate on earth.
This new development opens the door to the potential that food could be created from any plant reducing the need for crops to be grown on valuable land that requires fertilizers pesticides and large amounts of water.
However the process works with cellulose from any plant. This bioprocess called simultaneous enzymatic biotransformation
and soybeans grow it stimulates the growth of plants in the water#algae in the Gulf.
Previously it was not possible to resolve individual proteins on densely labeled heterogeneous surfaces such as those in plant cell walls
#Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy marketa team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost environmentally friendly fuel source
Zhang and his team have succeeded in using xylose the most abundant simple plant sugar to produce a large quantity of hydrogen that previously was attainable only in theory.
The key to this exciting development is that Zhang is using the second most prevalent sugar in plants to produce this hydrogen he said.
which comprises as much as 30 percent of plant cell walls. Despite its abundance the use of xylose for releasing hydrogen has been limited.
because capturing CO2 with conventional technology is an energy-intensive process that can consume as much as one-quarter of the high-pressure steam that plants use to produce electricity.
Each of these plants makes electricity by boiling water to create steam to run electric turbines.
because low-grade steam is often put to various uses around a plant. Rice's new study found that in cases where waste is available it may be used to capture CO2.
and it will drive up the cost of electricity by lowering the amount of electricity a plant can produce for sale.
Georgia Institute of technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees.
and other plants to absorb atmospheric CO2 for photosynthesis. In nature the CO2 is released eventually back into the atmosphere as the plant decays.
Biochar is a plant byproduct similar to charcoal that can be made from lumber waste dried corn stalks and other plant residues.
Like BECCS the goal is to permanently lock carbon underground instead of letting CO2 re-enter the atmosphere as the plant decomposes.
and replicated the unique structural elements that create the bright iridescent blue color of a tropical plant's fruit.
The plant of course cannot change color. By combining its structure with an elastic material however we've created an artificial version that passes through a full rainbow of colors as it's stretched.
The fruit of the South american tropical plant Margaritaria nobilis commonly called bastard hogberry is an intriguing example of this adaptation.
what can be seen of these plants above the ground. Root systems are essential to gathering water and nutrients but understanding
what's happening in these unseen parts of the plants has depended until now mostly on lab studies and subjective field measurements.
and analyzing the root systems of mature plants. The technique believed to be the first of its kind uses advanced computer technology to analyze photographs taken of root systems in the field.
We've produced an imaging system to evaluate the root systems of plants in field conditions said Alexander Bucksch a postdoctoral fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Biology and School of Interactive Computing.
We can measure entire root systems for thousands of plants to give geneticists the information they need to search for genes with the best characteristics.
The research is supported by the National Science Foundation's Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) and Basic Research to Enable Agriculture Development (BREAD) the Howard Buffett Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Center for Data analytics at Georgia Tech.
The research was reported as the cover story in the October issue of the journal Plant Physiology.
Beyond improving food crops the technique could also help improve plants grown for energy production materials and other purposes.
and vary widely even among plants of the same species. Analyzing critical root properties in field-grown plants has depended on manual measurements
In contrast automated measurements have the potential to provide enhanced statistical information for plant improvement.
and Penn State researchers uses digital photography to provide a detailed image of roots from mature plants in the field.
Individual plants to be studied are dug up and their root systems washed clean of soil. The roots are photographed then against a black background using a standard digital camera pointed down from a tripod.
We went out to the field to see the plants under realistic growing conditions. Developing the digital photography technique required iterative refinements to produce consistent images that could be analyzed using computer programs.
In collaboration with a research team led by Jonathan Lynch a professor of plant sciences at Penn State the system has been evaluated in South africa with cowpea and maize plants.
and collaborated with leading plant root biologists from the Lynch group to study complex root structure under field conditions said Weitz.
For instance certain genes may help plants survive in nitrogen-poor soils or in areas where drought is a problem.
The overall goal is to develop improved plants that can feed increasing numbers of people
Integral to this change will be understanding plants and how they provide us with food and alternative materials.
Our laboratory has ongoing research with the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service into remote-reporting Internet-based technologies
Since then he has worked to bring plant combustion processes into the laboratory where they can be studied better understood
#Tricking plants to see the light may control most important twitch on Earthcopious corn growing in tiny backyard plots?
For the first time Vierstra and his team have revealed the structure of the plant phytochrome a critical molecule that detects the light that tells plants
which all plants grow and develop. Vierstra's group published the structure in a recent issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
His team also presented its results this month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Portland Oregon.
It's the molecule that tells plants when to flower says Vierstra. Plants use the molecule to sense where they are in the canopy;
they use the phytochromes for color vision--to sense whether they are above next to or under other plants.
Vierstra previously determined the structure of a similar phytochrome from light-sensing bacteria which guided his work in plants.
He already has several patents on the technologies derived from these structures and has been in talks to commercialize them.
The determination of a plant phytochrome three-dimensional structure will only accelerate improvements to the technology.
One of the biggest moves in agriculture Vierstra says is to be able to grow plants at higher density allowing producers to plant more crops in a given area thus saving space and other resources.
Currently there is a limit to how closely plants can grow relative to their nearest neighbors At high density the leaves of one plant shade the other signaling to the shaded plant it isn't receiving enough sunlight.
These plants grow stems and stalks rather than fruits and seeds becoming long and leggy as they reach for the sky.
which senses the wavelength of light shining on plants. Plants in full sun absorb red light while shaded plants receive only the leftover far-red light.
The type of light the phytochrome sees tells the plant whether to stretch out and become taller
or to flower and make fruit. Based on the light available the phytochrome cycles between an inactive and active state.
Photoconversion between the active and inactive states of phytochromes is arguably the most important twitch on this planet as it tells plants to become photosynthetic
By mutating the phytochromes we created plants that think they're in full sun even when they're not Vierstra says.
The University of Colorado team's entry in the exploration HABITAT (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is called Plants Anywhere:
Plants Growing in Free Habitat Spaces. Instead of an area set aside just for vegetation the approach calls for plants to be distributed in any available space in a deep-space habitat.
The X-Hab challenge is a university-level project designed to engage and retain students in science technology engineering and math or STEM.
They are developing a Distributed Remotely Operated Plant Production System or DROPPS. It is a concept for producing edible plants during long-term missions to destinations such as Mars. Heather Hava who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences explains that the goal is to have robots do much of the monotonous tasks saving time
for the astronauts. The'Plants Anywhere'approach is designed to help minimize astronaut workload said Hava whose degree will focus in bioastronautics.
This keeps them free to concentrate on more important tasks. A year ago the University of Colorado student team demonstrated a gardening system with plants robotically tended on a Lazy susan-like device.
We took what we learned the past two years and applied it to this new system Hava said.
Telemetry in each SPOT provides data on plant condition to a computer display. The robots and plants are networked together
and the SPOTS have the ability to monitor their fruit's or vegetables'soil humidity
and supports its plants it can determine when ROGR needs to perform plant maintenance tasks.
ROGR is a robot on wheels has a forklift to move SPOTS a mechanical arm for manipulating the plants
and a fluid delivery system that can provide fresh water or water with nutrients. Larsen explains that the system could be operated remotely
The ROGR robots can visit a specific plant to deliver water or to locate and grasp a fruit or vegetable.
If an astronaut requests tomatoes for a salad the system decides which specific plants have the ripest tomatoes
We want to optimize a system allowing the humans to get psychological benefits from interacting with the plants she said in a 2013 Web video interview produced by the University of Colorado Boulder.
We also want the plants to be in the astronauts'environment so they can see them smell them
#Discovery provides insights on how plants respond to elevated carbon dioxide levelsbiologists at UC San diego have solved a longstanding mystery concerning the way plants reduce the numbers of their breathing pores in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
In a paper published in this weekâ##s early online edition of Nature they report the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants made up of four genes from three different gene families that control the density
of breathing poresâ#r â#oestomataâ#â#n plant leaves in response to elevated CO2 levels.
Their discovery should help biologists better understand how the steadily increasing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere (which last spring for the first time in recorded history remained above 400 parts per million) are affecting the ability of plants and economically important crops to deal with heat stress and drought.
It could also provide agricultural scientists with new tools to engineer plants and crops that can deal with droughts and high temperatures like those now affecting the Southwestern United states. â#oefor each carbon dioxide molecule that is incorporated into plants through photosynthesis plants lose about 200 hundred molecules of water
through their stomataâ#explains Julian Schroeder a professor of biology who headed the research effort. â#oebecause elevated CO2 reduces the density of stomatal pores in leaves this is at first sight beneficial for plants as they would lose less water.
However the reduction in the numbers of stomatal pores decreases the ability of plants to cool their leaves during a heat wave via water evaporation.
Less evaporation adds to heat stress in plants which ultimately affects crop yield. â#Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San diego called â#oefood and Fuel for the 21st Centuryâ
#which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel production. â#oeour research is aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms
and genes by which CO2 represses stomatal pore developmentâ#says Schroeder. Working in a tiny mustard plant called Arabidopsis which is used as a genetic model
and shares many of the same genes as other plants and crops he and his team of biologists discovered that the proteins encoded by the four genes they discovered repress the development of stomata at elevated CO2 levels.
when plants sense atmospheric CO2 levels rising they increase their expression of a key peptide hormone called Epidermal Patterning Factor-2 EPF2. â#oethe EPF2 peptide acts like a morphogen
which is responsive to atmospheric CO2 levelsâ#says Engineer. â#oecrsp plays a pivotal role in allowing the plant to produce the right amount of stomata in response to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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