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Informational Interview with Professor Eve Wurtele, Iowa State University

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Informational Interview by Seth O’Conner, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2018 Dr. Eve Wurtele is a professor in the GDCB department at Iowa State University. Her Bio is taken from her GDCB webpage (https://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/p...). I was fortunate enough to do a research rotation in Dr. Wurtele's lab while…

Informational interview with Raymond Zielinski, Professor Emeritus at University of Illionois

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Informational Interview by Stuti Shrivastava, ASPB Conviron Scholar 2020 Prof. Raymond E Zielinski is an emeritus professor with the department of plant biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He did his Ph.D. from Rutgers University and then pursued his post-doctorate…

Informational Interview with Monic Pedroni, Research Associate at University of Idaho

By 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!

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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

By 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

Photosynthesis 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

By 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"

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1st 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

A 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…