Press Releases

Aug

19

2015

Firefly protein enables visualization of roots in soil

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Plants form a vast network of below-ground roots that search soil for needed resources. The structure and function of this root network can be highly adapted to particular environments, such as desert soils where plants like Mesquite ...

Jul

30

2015

Carnegie’s Frommer elected to German Academy

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Wolf B. Frommer, Director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, has been elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest national academies. Leopoldina has a membership of about 1,500 ...

Jul

09

2015

Deep into deserts: A letter from Carnegie President Matthew Scott

By Carnegie HQ

In 1903 the Carnegie Institution established a Desert Laboratory to explore the properties of desert plants. From that humble stone building in Tucson, Arizona, eventually emerged our spectacular Department of Plant Biology on the Stanford ...

Jun

16

2015

Zhiyong Wang Receives Germany’s Humboldt Research Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang will receive the Humboldt Research Award, one of Germany’s most-prestigious prizes. Granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation up to 100 times each year, the award honors academics “whose fundamental ...

May

28

2015

Quasi-sexual gene transfer and recombination drives genetic diversity of hot spring bacteria

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — New work from a team including Carnegie’s Devaki Bhaya and Michelle Davison used massive DNA sequencing of bacterial populations that grow in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park to determine their genetic diversity and ...

Apr

23

2015

Ehrhardt named Royal Microscopical Society honorary fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— Carnegie’s David Ehrhardt has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society. It was announced during the society’s Botanical Microscopy 2015 meeting at Exeter University. Potential fellows must be nominated and ...

Apr

09

2015

Hormones that guide root growth rates revealed

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— A plant's roots grow and spread into the soil, taking up necessary water and minerals. The tip of a plant's root is a place of active cell division followed by cell elongation, with different zones dedicated to different functions, all ...

Mar

20

2015

Food-delivery process inside seeds revealed

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— Inside every seed is the embryo of a plant, and in most cases also a storage of food needed to power initial growth of the young seedling. A seed consists mainly of carbohydrates and these have to be is transported from the leaf where ...

Mar

15

2015

How do they do plant research without growing a thing?

By Carnegie HQ

Human health and survival depend in large part on the chemistry of plant metabolism. About a quarter of our prescription drugs and half of anticancer drugs come from plants. These compounds, called specialized or secondary metabolites, are used to ...

Nov

13

2014

Switching on a dime: how plants function in shade and light

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert energy from the sunlight into chemical energy in the form of sugars. These sugars are used by plants to grow and function, as well as food for animals and humans that eat them. ...

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