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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 Carnegie HQ

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 associated to each ...

Feb

01

2010

Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association

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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 ...

Dec

14

2009

Antagonistic genes control rice growth

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA —Scientists at the Carnegie Institution, with colleagues,* have found that a plant steroid prompts two genes to battle each other—one suppresses the other to ensure that leaves grow normally in rice and the experimental plant ...

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