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Dec
09
2009

Season’s Greetings from Carnegie

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This image was selected as our holiday card for 2009. It is a portion of AraNet, a gene association network built from over 50 million data points of functional genomics data from the experimental mustard plant Arabidopsis . Each line represents a ...
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Nov
24
2009

“Safety Valve” Protects Photosynthesis from Too Much Light

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Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause cell death. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution ...
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Sep
16
2009

Carnegie’s Winslow Briggs Receives International Prize for Biology

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Palo Alto, CA— Director Emeritus of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology , Winslow Briggs , will be awarded the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at a ceremony in Tokyo November 30, ...
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Sep
08
2009

Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered

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Aug
06
2009

Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology

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Palo Alto, CA —With the information explosion, it’s remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These interactive, so-called membrane proteins ...
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Jul
01
2009

Plants Put Limit on Ice Ages

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Palo Alto, CA — When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth’s surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models have indicated that over the past ...
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Jun
22
2009

Midget Plant Gets Makeover

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Palo Alto, CA— A tiny plant with a long name ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and new medicines. The genes, ...
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Jun
15
2009

Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis

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Palo Alto , CA —Cellulose is a fibrous molecule that makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich crops, ...
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May
19
2009

Plant Scientists Participate in DOE Energy Frontier Research Center

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Stanford , CA — The Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology is a major participant in a newly-funded Department of Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) at Stanford University . The new EFRC, called the Center on Nanostructuring for ...
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Mar
30
2009

New Possibilities for Hydrogen-Producing Algae

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Stanford , CA — Photosynthesis produces the food that we eat and the oxygen that we breathe ― could it also help satisfy our future energy needs by producing clean-burning hydrogen? Researchers studying a hydrogen-producing, single-celled green alga ...
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