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A stand of poplar trees seen from ground level looking up, against a blue sky

Understanding Growth Regulation by Protein Degradation in Trees for Bioenergy

  • by Andy Fell
  • September 14, 2022
  • Egghead
  • Science and Climate
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Unlocked Enzyme Structure Shows How Strigolactone Hormone Controls Plant Growth

  • by Andy Fell
  • April 28, 2022
  • Egghead
  • Science & Technology
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Plant Smoke Detectors Evolve as Hormone Sensors

  • by Andy Fell
  • February 11, 2022
  • Egghead
  • Feeding a Growing Population
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Study Challenges Evolutionary Theory That DNA Mutations Are Random

  • by Emily C. Dooley
  • January 12, 2022
  • Feeding a Growing Population
  • Science & Technology
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Breeding Plants With Genes From 1 Parent

  • by Andy Fell
  • November 19, 2021
  • Feeding a Growing Population
  • Food & Agriculture
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Why Sunflowers Face East

  • by Andy Fell
  • August 10, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
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Drought Changes Root Microbiome

  • by Andy Fell
  • July 22, 2021
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  • Driven by Curiosity
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Three Grants for Biofuels Research

  • by Andy Fell
  • June 29, 2021
  • Egghead
  • Science and Climate
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Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought

  • by Jules Bernstein
  • May 18, 2021
  • Feeding a Growing Population
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Plant Biologist Awarded Packard Fellowship

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 15, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
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Jungle plants

Study Finds Missing Link in the Evolutionary History of Carbon-Fixing Protein Rubisco

  • by Greg Watry
  • August 31, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Food & Agriculture
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Forgoing the GMO Footprint: First Steps to Using Viruses for Gene Editing in Plants

  • by Greg Watry
  • June 01, 2020
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  • Feeding a Growing Population
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Innovation Award to Find Disease-Fighting Plant Compounds

  • by Greg Watry
  • April 09, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
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What’s It Take to Win Grad Slam? An Earful

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 14, 2019
  • University
  • Food & Agriculture
Scientist looks at plant roots

Gene Network Lets Plant Roots Handle Nitrogen

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 24, 2018
  • Food & Agriculture
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