Plant cells help bees get a grip on their own waste and other pathogens, thereby helping to kill harmful organisms that cause disease, a key trait in beekeepers’ livelihoods. But the process of growing plants can cause problems, the researchers said.
One problem is that plant cells have been found to have more than 40 different functions. These include making proteins and molecules that play a role in cell division and reproduction; maintaining organelles; producing substances involved in cell division; and making chemicals involved in cell division and survival.
“That might be a problem if some of these [substances] are not really a function, but they’re just there as a kind of ‘fungus-wallpaper,’ to be found inside these cells,” said Matthew Gertz, a biology professor and a member of the National Science Foundation Discovery Program.
Gertz’s group has collected some plant cells during studies of honeybees and other pollinators, but they do not have the long-term ability to study how the cells change over time, such as through exposure to ultraviolet or high temperatures. That’s the purpose of these studies, which are being undertaken in the University of Maryland’s School of Science.
Gertz said it might not be practical to take plant cells and store them indefinitely.
He also said it is not clear how much plant cells can be “busted” during storage or how much will break off during long periods of storage. He said researchers might look at the plants they capture at바카라 the beginning, rather than after a ye카지노 사이트ar.
The scientists will eventually collect more plant cells from different kinds of flowers so they can compare their levels of cell loss to their levels during storage.
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Additional details about the research can be found in “Efficient and efficient processing of plant species by plant cell production,” being published Nov. 4 in the journal Science.
For more information, contact Sarah J. Jones (jake@mcgill.ca).
The paper’s corresp바카라사이트onding author was Michael J. Nocera (mgnocera@mcgill.ca).
