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Jul

14

2021

Carnegie and Stanford plant scientists awarded $900K for biofuel research

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman and Stanford University’s Ellen Yeh were awarded a $900, 000 grant this spring from the university’s public-private partnership Strategic Energy Alliance to research the synthesis of biofuels from a species ...

Jul

06

2021

How seeds know it’s a good time to germinate

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Dehydrated plant seeds can lay dormant for long periods—over 1,000 years in some species—before the availability of water can trigger germination. This protects the embryonic plant inside from a variety of environmental stresses until ...

Jun

22

2021

Carnegie postdoc wins fellowship to study plants’ adaptation to climate change

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Carnegie’s Megan Ruffley was awarded a prestigious Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology from the National Science Foundation to study the genetics underpinning a plant’s ability to adapt to a changing climate. ...

May

03

2021

Unraveling a mystery of dinoflagellate genomic architecture

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— New work from a Stanford University-led team of researchers including Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman and Tingting Xiang unravels a longstanding mystery about the relationship between form and function in the genetic material of a diverse ...

Feb

11

2021

A plant’s nutrient-sensing abilities can modulate its response to environmental stress

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Understanding how plants respond to stressful environmental conditions is crucial to developing effective strategies for protecting important agricultural crops from a changing climate. New research led by Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang, ...

Feb

01

2021

Engineering light availability for crop production—a solution for coming challenges?

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— What if we could increase a plant’s productivity by modifying the light to which it is exposed? This could increase the yield of important food and biofuel crops and also combat climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon. In a ...

Nov

24

2020

Can we harness a plant’s ability to synthesize medicinal compounds?

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Anthraquinones are a class of naturally occurring compounds prized for their medicinal properties, as well as for other applications, including ecologically friendly dyes. Despite wide interest, the mechanism by which plants produce ...

Oct

15

2020

Phosphate polymer forms a cornerstone of metabolic control

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— In a changing climate, understanding how organisms respond to stress conditions is increasingly important. New work led by Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman and Emanuel Sanz-Luque could enable scientists to engineer the metabolism of ...

Aug

03

2020

DOE awards biofuel research team including Carnegie plant biologists

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Carnegie’s Sue Rhee and Moises Exposito-Alonso are leading members of an initiative to identify genes related to stress tolerance in the mustard plant field pennycress. Theirs was one of seven biofuel research projects awarded a total ...

Jul

14

2020

Exposito-Alonso honored for outstanding early career achievements

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Carnegie evolutionary geneticist Moises Exposito-Alonso was awarded a Max Planck Society’s Otto Hahn Medal for early career excellence. The prize is endowed with 7,500 euros. Since 1978, the society has recognized outstanding ...

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