Press Releases

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 ...

Feb

18

2016

Plant scientists: GM technology a safe tool to help meet food supply demands

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — More than 1,000 scientists from nonprofit, corporate, academic, and private institutions say public doubts about genetically modified food crops are hindering the next Green Revolution. In a letter published in the journal Science ...

Dec

17

2015

Carnegie’s Jones recognized for early career contributions to plant science

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Carnegie’s Alexander Jones will receive the Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science. The honor includes publishing a short review, an editorial written about his work in the journal New Phytologist , and a small bursary. The ...

Nov

16

2015

Plant metabolic protein tailored for nighttime growth

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria transform the Sun's energy into chemical energy during the daytime. But these photosynthetic organisms activate ...

Nov

02

2015

Breeding higher yielding crops by increasing sugar import into seeds

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Once a mother plant releases its embryos to the outside world, they have to survive on their own without family protection. To ensure successful colonization by these vulnerable creatures, the mother plant provides the embryo with a ...

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