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Jul
05
2013

Fascination of Plants Day

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Jul
02
2013

Breakthrough: sensors monitor cells at work

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Stanford, CA —Transport proteins are responsible for moving materials such as nutrients and metabolic products through a cell’s outer membrane, which seals and protects all living cells, to the cell’s interior. These transported molecules include ...
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Jun
19
2013

Have you had your cereal today?

By Carnegie HQ
Stanford, CA —Cereals are grasses that produce grains, the bulk of our food supply. Carnegie’s Plant Biology Department is releasing genome-wide metabolic complements of several cereals including rice, barley, sorghum, and millet. Along with corn, ...
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May
01
2013

How can plant science ease global good and fuel demands?

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Stanford, CA — An international team of 12 leading plant biologists, including Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer, say their discoveries could have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. ...
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Mar
14
2013

Plant science helps cancer diagnositcs?

By Carnegie HQ
Valdivia, Chile, and Washington, D.C .—Cancer cells break down sugars and produce the metabolic acid lactate at a much higher rate than normal cells. This phenomenon provides a telltale sign that cancer is present, via diagnostics such as PET scans ...
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Jan
23
2013

Breakthrough: How salt stops plant growth

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, D.C. —Until now it has not been clear how salt, a scourge to agriculture, halts the growth of the plant-root system. A team of researchers, led by the Carnegie Institution’s José Dinneny and Lina Duan, found that not all types of roots ...
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Dec
03
2012

Plant organ development breakthrough

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Stanford, CA — Plants grow upward from a tip of undifferentiated tissue called the shoot apical meristem. As the tip extends, stem cells at the center of the meristem divide and increase in numbers. But the cells on the periphery differentiate to ...
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Nov
01
2012

Carnegie Institution for Science Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development

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Washington, DC—The Carnegie Institution announced today that it is a grant recipient of the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Wolf B. Frommer, director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant ...
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Jul
23
2012

Lighting up the plant hormone “command system”

By Carnegie HQ
Stanford, CA —Light is not only the source of a plant’s energy, but also an environmental signal that instructs the growth behavior of plants. As a result, a plant’s sensitivity to light is of great interest to scientists and their research on this ...
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Jun
01
2012

Plant research funding crucial for the future

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Stanford, CA —The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an opinion piece published in the June ...
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