Nov 24 2010 High tech burglary: How nasty bacteria get access to your pantry, then dine and dash. By admin
Nov 24 2010 How pathogens hijack host plants By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA — Infestation by bacteria and other pathogens result in global crop losses of over $500 billion annually. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for identifying how ...
Nov 15 2010 Mastermind Steroid Found in Plants By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— Scientists have known for some time how important plant steroids called brassinosteroids are for regulating plant growth and development. But until now, they did not know how extensive their reach is. Now researchers, including Yu Sun ...
Oct 29 2010 How plants choose their mates By admin Flowering plants release copious amounts of sperm-carrying pollen to be delivered by wind, insect, or other carriers to waiting females. In some situations, the females are choosy about which pollen grains they allow to fertilize their eggs. How do ...
Oct 14 2010 Carnegie’s Winslow Briggs Elected Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA— Director Emeritus of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, Winslow Briggs,has been elected an Einstein Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The professorship program annually awards 20 distinguished international ...
Oct 12 2010 Scientists Watch Cell-Shape Process for First Time By Carnegie HQ LINK TO MOVIES http://deepgreen.stanford.edu/cell%20imaging%20site%20/html/microtubules.html Palo Alto, CA — Researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, with colleagues at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, observed for the first ...
Aug 04 2010 Private Support Helps Public Plant Research By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA—The private sector and an Austrian research institute are chipping in to help support one of the most widely used public biological databases in the world. Although the majority of funding continues to come from the National Science ...
Mar 30 2010 How can plant research help us understand diabetes? By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA – Scientists at Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology have made the first real-time observations of sugars in the cells of intact and living plant tissues. With the help of groundbreaking imaging techniques, the group has determined ...
Mar 22 2010 Cracking the Plant-Cell Membrane Code By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA—To engineer better, more productive crops and develop new drugs to combat disease, scientists look at how the sensor-laden membranes surrounding cells control nutrient and water uptake, secrete toxins, and interact with the environment ...
Feb 01 2010 Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association By admin Video Press Release Palo Alto, CA—Scientists have created a new computational model that can be used to predict gene function of uncharacterized plant genes with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The network, dubbed AraNet, has over 19,600 genes ...