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Apr

17

2017

Girls Advancing In Stem (GAINS) visit Department of Plant Biology

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Stanford, CA— Recently, Heike Lindner, Ximena Anleu Gil and Therese Suren LaRue led a group of 15 high school girls from around the country for a tour of Carnegie Science labs. The students loved meeting Heike, Ying and Threse, touring the work ...

Apr

17

2017

How do we tell 'good' science from 'great' science?

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Mar

16

2017

How improved valves let grasses “breathe,” cope with climate change

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA —New work from a joint team of plant biologists and ecologists from Carnegie and Stanford University has uncovered the factor behind an important innovation that makes grasses—both the kind that make up native prairies and the kind we’ ...

Jan

30

2017

Plant regulatory proteins “tagged” with sugar

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —New work from Carnegie’s Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang reveals that the process of synthesizing many important master proteins in plants involves extensive modification, or “tagging” by sugars after the protein is assembled. Their work ...

Dec

14

2016

A plant’s response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply. For many plants, even a ...

Oct

11

2016

Surprising role of bacterial genes in evolution

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—We generally think of inheritance as the genetic transfer from parent to offspring and that evolution moves toward greater complexity. But there are other ways that genes are transferred between organisms. Sometimes a “host” organism ...

Oct

04

2016

Overlooked plants defy drought

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— A feature thought to make plants sensitive to drought could actually hold the key to them coping with it better, according to new findings published by eLife , from Kathryn Barton of the Carnegie Institution for Science (Department of ...

Sep

22

2016

Carnegie’s José Dinneny Selected HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Simons Foundation have awarded José Dinneny, of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar grant. He is one of 84 scientists chosen out of some 1,400 ...

Jul

20

2016

Carnegie Science Career Expo

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Jul

11

2016

Crop roots enact austerity measures during drought to bank water

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — With a growing world population and a changing climate, understanding how agriculturally important plants respond to drought is crucial. New work from a team led by Carnegie’s José Dinneny discovers a strategy employed by grasses in ...

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