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Aug

12

2008

"Developing Cellulosic Biofuels" ICAR Keynote Lecture by Chris Somerville

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Listen to the lecture here: MP3 Download | Streaming Audio Download the Powerpoint presentation here: PowerPoint Presentation The 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research occured in Montreal, Canada from July 23 - 27. The 6 community- ...

Aug

12

2008

'Developing Cellulosic Biofuels' ICAR Keynote Lecture by Chris Somerville

By Carnegie HQ

Listen to the lecture here: iTunes U Download the Powerpoint presentation here: PowerPoint Presentation The 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research occured in Montreal, Canada from July 23 - 27. The 6 community-organized workshops were ...

Jul

24

2008

Plant Steroids Offer New Paradigm for How Hormones Work

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new study by ...

Jun

19

2008

New web resource to improve crop engineering

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA . The Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology today announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal feed, biofuels, ...

Mar

17

2008

Controlling a sea of information

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA — Curators at one of the world’s most widely used biological databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, or TAIR, have joined forces with the journal Plant Physiology , to solve the “flood of information” dilemma. It is a first-of ...

Mar

11

2008

New Twist on Life’s Power Source

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth. Photosynthesis by plants, algae, and some bacteria supports nearly all living ...

Oct

11

2007

Green algae—the nexus of plant/animal ancestry

By Carnegie HQ

Genes of a tiny, single-celled green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii may contain scores more data about the common ancestry of plants and animals than the richest paleontological dig. This work is described in an article in the October 12, ...

Sep

23

2007

Scientists discover how cancer may take hold

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA-- A team, led by researchers at the Carnegie Institution,* has found a key biochemical cycle that suppresses the immune response, thereby allowing cancer cells to multiply unabated. The research shows how the biomolecules responsible ...

Sep

07

2007

Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award

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Plant Biology's Winslow R. Briggs, was awarded the 2007 Adolph E. Gude, Jr., Award . The award was established by the American Society of Plant Biologists and first given in 1983. It is made triennially to a scientist or lay person in recognition of ...

Aug

23

2007

Nasty Bacteria Need Sunlight to Do Their Worst

By Carnegie HQ

Carnegie Contact: Dr. Winslow Briggs; (650) 325-1521 x207 or briggs@stanford.edu For a copy of the paper, please contact: AAAS Office of Public Programs; (202) 326-6440 or scipak@aaas.org Stanford, CA - Certain types of bacteria have sunlight- ...

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