Press Releases

May

15

2014

Communicating with the world across the border

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA —All living cells are held together by membranes, which provide a barrier to the transport of nutrients. They are also the communication platform connecting the outside world to the cell’s interior control centers. Thousands of ...

May

01

2014

Decoding the chemical vocabulary of plants

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA —Plants spend their entire lifetime rooted to one spot. When faced with a bad situation, such as a swarm of hungry herbivores or a viral outbreak, they have no option to flee but instead must fight to survive. What is the key to ...

Apr

15

2014

New technique will accelerate genetic characterization of photosynthesis

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA — Photosynthesis provides fixed carbon and energy for nearly all life on Earth, yet many aspects of this fascinating process remain mysterious. For example, little is known about how it is regulated in response to changes in light ...

Apr

15

2014

Drought hormones measured

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA—Floods and droughts are increasingly in the news, and climate experts say their frequency will only go up in the future. As such, it is crucial for scientists to learn more about how these extreme events affect plants in order to ...

Mar

16

2014

Nectar: A sweet reward from plants to attract pollinators

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA — Evolution is based on diversity, and sexual reproduction is key to creating a diverse population that secures competitiveness in nature. Plants had to solve a problem: they needed to find ways to spread their genetic material. ...

Feb

18

2014

Nitrogen-tracking tools for better crops and less pollution

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA — As every gardner knows, nitrogen is crucial for a plant’s growth. But nitrogen absorption is inefficient. This means that on the scale of food crops, adding significant levels of nitrogen to the soil through fertilizer presents ...

Feb

03

2014

Carnegie’s Chen recognized for contributions to plant science

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Carnegie’s Li-Quing Chen, recipient of a Tansley Medal for Excellence in Plant Science, announced late last year, is honored with an editorial and minireview in New Phytologist this month. The journal’s Tansley medal is awarded each ...

Nov

07

2013

Plant cell architecture: Growth toward a light source

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Stanford, CA —Inside every plant cell, a cytoskeleton provides an interior scaffolding to direct construction of the cell’s walls, and thus the growth of the organism as a whole. Environmental and hormonal signals that modulate cell growth ...

Sep

10

2013

Carnegie’s Rubén Rellán-Álvarez Receives Young Scientist Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— Postdoctoral fellow, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez at the Department of Plant Biology has been awarded the prestigious Marschner Young Scientist Award by the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium. The award was established for “ ...

Sep

05

2013

Clues in Coral Bleaching Mystery

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Coral reefs are tremendously important for ocean biodiversity, as well as for the economic and aesthetic value they provide to their surrounding communities. Unfortunately they have been in great decline in recent years, much of it ...

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