Robert Skelton1 1 Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94707. Stems of land plants provide mechanical support and long-distance transport of water and carbohydrates. Although it has long been recognized that plant stems can also store water, it remains…

Catherine Freed's final project for the ASPB Conviron Scholars Program

Synthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential. Now, four early-career…

Zoe Getman-PickeringLeafByte app home screen. LeafByte- built primarily by current and former Cornell graduate and undergraduate entomology students – lets users take a photo of a damaged leaf and quickly receive accurate data on how much of the leaf pests have eaten. The app, available for iPhone…

Synthetic biology is a set of tools, a way of thinking, the integration of engineering principles into biological sciences, and potentially the biggest opportunity for advances in plant sciences since PCR. Yet many struggle to define it, and fewer still grasp its full potential. Now, four early-career…

ASPB Conviron Scholar Independent Project Created by Jen Schmidt As a way to combine my love of plants and writing, I started an informal blog called Everything Orchids.  Most of my blog posts cover practical tips for raising orchids as well as interesting plant biology facts.  I also cover some…

By Tessa Moses, The Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3), The King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, United Kingdom Photosynthesis is the process in which solar energy is used to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to chemical energy in…

ASPB Conviron Scholars Independent Project by Daisy Dobrijevic in conjunction with the National Space Centre (UK) For my independent project I had a lot of fun working in conjunction with the National Space Centre. On the subject of plants in space, we produced a video, info graphic and a blog post…