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Oct
08
2015

New Way to Watch Plant-Cell Walls Assemble

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, D.C.—The pervasive plant fiber cellulose, which makes up cell walls, represents most of the biomass on Earth and is used to create everything from textiles and building materials, to renewable biofuels. Primary cell walls determine the ...
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Oct
06
2015

Carnegie’s Jonikas and Zhang Receive Prestigious NIH Awards

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Two researchers, Martin Jonikas of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology and Zhao Zhang of the Department of Embryology, have been awarded the New Innovator and Early Independence Awards, respectively, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ...
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Sep
30
2015

New nanoscale visualization method to unravel photosynthesis

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Carnegie’s Arthur Grossman teamed up with engineers at Stanford University (including Fritz Prinz and graduate student s Zubin Hu ang and Witchukorn Phuthong) to develop the use of atomic force microscopy to determine the structures of ...
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Sep
01
2015

SFGate: Glowing roots illuminate plant secrets

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On SFGate: Carnegie's José Dinneny uses firefly proteins to light up certain plants and reveal root system behavior. More
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Aug
19
2015

Firefly protein enables visualization of roots in soil

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Stanford, CA — Plants form a vast network of below-ground roots that search soil for needed resources. The structure and function of this root network can be highly adapted to particular environments, such as desert soils where plants like Mesquite ...
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Jul
30
2015

Carnegie’s Frommer elected to German Academy

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Stanford, CA —Wolf B. Frommer, Director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, has been elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest national academies. Leopoldina has a membership of about 1,500 ...
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Jul
09
2015

Deep into deserts: A letter from Carnegie President Matthew Scott

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In 1903 the Carnegie Institution established a Desert Laboratory to explore the properties of desert plants. From that humble stone building in Tucson, Arizona, eventually emerged our spectacular Department of Plant Biology on the Stanford ...
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Jun
26
2015

Carnegie and friends celebrate Arthur Grossman's 65th birthday

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Jun
23
2015

Martin Jonikas

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Jun
16
2015

Zhiyong Wang Receives Germany’s Humboldt Research Award

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Washington, DC — Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang will receive the Humboldt Research Award, one of Germany’s most-prestigious prizes. Granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation up to 100 times each year, the award honors academics “whose fundamental ...
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