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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 ...
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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’ ...
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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 ...
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Dec
14
2016

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

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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 ...
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Oct
11
2016

Surprising role of bacterial genes in evolution

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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 ...
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Oct
04
2016

Overlooked plants defy drought

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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 ...
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Sep
22
2016

Carnegie’s José Dinneny Selected HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar

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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 ...
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Jul
20
2016

Carnegie Science Career Expo

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Jul
11
2016

Crop roots enact austerity measures during drought to bank water

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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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