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 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 ...
Jul 04 2016 Feeding the world by rewiring plant “mouths” By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — Plants have tiny pores on their leaves called stomata—Greek for mouths—through which they take in carbon dioxide from the air and from which water evaporates. New work from the lab of Dominique Bergmann, honorary adjunct staff member ...
May 10 2016 How algae could save plants from themselves By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — Algae may hold the key to feeding the world’s burgeoning population. Don’t worry; no one is going to make you eat them. But because they are more efficient than most plants at taking in carbon dioxide from the air, algae could ...
Apr 20 2016 Four Stanford professors join Carnegie as honorary adjuncts By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — Four additional members of Stanford University’s faculty have been named Honorary Adjunct Staff Scientists at Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology. Stanford’s Dominique Bergmann has been a Carnegie adjunct since 2011, and the newly ...
Mar 02 2016 Some bacterial CRISPRs can snip RNA, too By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — You’ve probably seen news stories about the highly lauded, much-discussed genome editing system CRISPR/Cas9. But did you know the system was actually derived from bacteria, which use it to fight off foreign invaders such as viruses? ...
Feb 26 2016 How plants protect photosynthesis from oxygen By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA— During the daytime, plants convert the Sun’s energy into sugars using photosynthesis, a complex, multi-stage biochemical process. New work from a team including Carnegie’s Mark Heinnickel, Wenqiang Yang, and Arthur Grossman identified ...