Press Releases

Jun

19

2013

Have you had your cereal today?

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Cereals are grasses that produce grains, the bulk of our food supply. Carnegie’s Plant Biology Department is releasing genome-wide metabolic complements of several cereals including rice, barley, sorghum, and millet. Along with corn, ...

May

01

2013

How can plant science ease global good and fuel demands?

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — An international team of 12 leading plant biologists, including Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer, say their discoveries could have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. ...

Mar

14

2013

Plant science helps cancer diagnositcs?

By Carnegie HQ

Valdivia, Chile, and Washington, D.C .—Cancer cells break down sugars and produce the metabolic acid lactate at a much higher rate than normal cells. This phenomenon provides a telltale sign that cancer is present, via diagnostics such as PET scans ...

Jan

23

2013

Breakthrough: How salt stops plant growth

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. —Until now it has not been clear how salt, a scourge to agriculture, halts the growth of the plant-root system. A team of researchers, led by the Carnegie Institution’s José Dinneny and Lina Duan, found that not all types of roots ...

Dec

03

2012

Plant organ development breakthrough

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Plants grow upward from a tip of undifferentiated tissue called the shoot apical meristem. As the tip extends, stem cells at the center of the meristem divide and increase in numbers. But the cells on the periphery differentiate to ...

Nov

01

2012

Carnegie Institution for Science Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—The Carnegie Institution announced today that it is a grant recipient of the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Wolf B. Frommer, director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant ...

Jul

23

2012

Lighting up the plant hormone “command system”

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Light is not only the source of a plant’s energy, but also an environmental signal that instructs the growth behavior of plants. As a result, a plant’s sensitivity to light is of great interest to scientists and their research on this ...

Jun

01

2012

Plant research funding crucial for the future

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an opinion piece published in the June ...

Apr

25

2012

Wolf B. Frommer Receives Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—The American Society for Plant Biology (ASPB) awarded Wolf B. Frommer, director of Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, the Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research for “his major contributions in the ...

Mar

29

2012

New Databases Harvest a Rich Bounty of Information on Crop Plant Metabolism

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — The Plant Metabolic Network ( http://www.plantcyc.org/ ), which is based at Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology, has launched four new online databases that offer an unprecedented view of the biochemical pathways controlling the ...

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