Jan 09 2018 Seeing in the dark: how plant roots perceive water through growth By Carnegie HQ Washington, DC — Without eyes, ears, or a central nervous system, plants can perceive the direction of environmental cues and respond to ensure their survival. For example, roots need to extend through the maze of nooks and crannies in the soil ...
Oct 04 2017 Science News Selected Carnegie’s José Dinneny as “Scientist to Watch” By Carnegie HQ Science News magazine has selected José Dinneny, of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, as one of ten young scientists to watch in 2017. The researchers were selected because they are likely to make big discoveries. The investigators are ...
Oct 02 2017 $16M DOE grant will enhance sorghum bioenergy By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — Carnegie Plant Biology Acting Director Sue Rhee and staff scientist José Dinneny and their labs are part of a research effort led by The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center , one of the world’s largest independent plant science ...
Sep 21 2017 Green algae could be key to engineering faster-growing crops By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA — How do green algae grow so quickly? Two new collaborations offer insight into how these organisms siphon carbon dioxide from the air for use in photosynthesis, a key factor in their ability to rapidly take over a swimming pool or pond ...
Jul 17 2017 What makes red algae so different and why should we care? By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA — The red algae called Porphyra and its ancestors have thrived for millions of years in the harsh habitat of the intertidal zone—exposed to fluctuating temperatures, high UV radiation, severe salt stress, and desiccation. Red algae ...
Jun 21 2017 Algae: the final frontier By Carnegie HQ Palo Alto, CA — Algae dominate the oceans that cover nearly three-quarters of our planet, and produce half of the oxygen that we breathe. And yet fewer than 10 percent of the algae have been formally described in the scientific literature, as noted ...
Jun 15 2017 Carnegie’s Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez Announced Pew Latin American Fellow By Carnegie HQ Pew announced the 2017 classes of biomedical scholars, Latin American fellows, and Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research today. Cesar-Cuevas Velazquez of the Department of Plant Biology Dinneny lab is among 37 researchers selected. These new ...
Jun 01 2017 Revealed: New step in plant mastermind hormone’s pathway By Carnegie HQ Stanford, CA —Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally regulated to use the surrounding resources in the most-advantageous way possible. Just imagine if you were stuck in one spot and had to strategize to ...
May 16 2017 Plant Biology’s Jia-Ying Zhu Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award By Carnegie HQ Washington, D.C .--Plant Biology postdoctoral research associate since 2012, Jia-Ying Zhu was awarded the sixth PIE award for her creativity, productivity, being a great team player in research, “and also an active and caring member of the Carnegie ...
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’ ...