Press Releases

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 ...

Sep

03

2013

Leading Plant Database Goes Subscription

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. --The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the laboratory plant Arabidopsis thaliana, is one of the most widely used plant databases in the world. Some 60,000 scientists visit ...

Jul

02

2013

Breakthrough: sensors monitor cells at work

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —Transport proteins are responsible for moving materials such as nutrients and metabolic products through a cell’s outer membrane, which seals and protects all living cells, to the cell’s interior. These transported molecules include ...

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. ...

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