Informational Interview with Monic Pedroni, Research Associate at University of Idaho
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Mallory Cullen, Conviron Scholar
What is your current job and what does it entail?
My current job is a molecular biology research associate at the University of Idaho. My job involves management of a potato molecular biology program. My job includes mentoring, everyday work at the bench, management…
Taproot S3E0: Season 3 Starts Next #TaprootTuesday!
Blog, The Taproot Season 3, The-Taproot0 Comments
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We are excited to announce that the first episode of Season 3 will be released next Tuesday! This season, we have some amazing guests joining us and each episode will focus on busting a common science myth.
Be sure to listen to Seasons 1 and 2 while you wait and stay tuned!
https://cast.rocks/hosting/8420/S3E0-Teaser.mp3
How…
Update: Engineering of metabolic pathways using synthetic enzyme complexes
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: UpdatesBy Nicholas Smirnoff, University of Exeter. This article is part of the forthcoming Synthetic Biology focus issue.
Plants provide a source of enzymes for metabolic engineering to produce valuable or useful products in micro-organisms or can themselves be engineered (Andre et al., 2016; Vickery et…
What We're Reading: November 16th
Blog, WWR Full PostPhotosynthesis Special Issue
This week’s ‘What We’re Reading’ summarizes the latest papers from the field of photosynthesis research. This includes a review on the discovery of the Calvin-Benson cycle by Tom Sharkey, and an Expert View on the relationship between nitrogen and photosynthesis…
Informational Interview with Emily Millar, USDA lab technician
Blog, Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Samantha Connolly, Conviron Scholar
Emily Millar is a biology laboratory technician. Emily works in a USDA carrot breeding lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on two main projects: breeding carrots for higher pigment color and breeding carrots for higher salt tolerance. This is Emily’s…
High School Writing Contest "Plants Have the Power to Speak a Great Language"
Blog1st Place in the Pakistani High School Writing Contest "Plants Have the Power to Speak a Great Language"
by Sunita Riasat
Plants have a power to speak a great language
Biologists, ecologists, foresters and naturalist increasingly argue that plants speak and the human can learn…
Self Control: SLF Proteins are Essential for Preventing Self-Fertilization in Petunia
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefA pollen grain lands on a stigma, swells with water, and sprouts a pollen tube, which races through the style to deliver sperm to the ovule below. When the pollen arises from the flower itself, this process often stops in its tracks. Self-incompatibility (SI) between pollen and pistil promotes outcrossing…
The Plantae Job Center - November 2, 2018
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Internship Posts:
Undergraduate Summer Research Experience Program, Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), Philapelphia, PA, USA
Biochemist Intern - Trait Discovery (199253W-01), DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, USA
PhD student in Hydrology & Climate…
Genetic Basis of Natural Variation of Rice Ionomics
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News(Translated from the Chinese original http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2018/1101/52991.shtml)
Nanhu News Network (Correspondent Sheng Ke)
On October 30th, the research group of Professor Tian Xingming from the Rice Science Team of the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement of our School…