Press Releases

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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