– Magdalen Lindeberg Micronutrients such as iron, copper, and zinc are required for crop growth, fertility, and grain yield. They are also essential components of the human diet. However, bread wheat has inherently low ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Bacterial speck, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, is an economically important disease that decreases the marketability and yield of fresh-market and processing tomatoes. Over 20 years of research on ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Chloroplasts not only capture light energy from the sun, but they also have enormous potential as factories for production of transgenic proteins. Plants generally are a promising source of pharmaceutical and nutritional ...
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Bacteria and fungi make a wide variety of small molecules using large genes known as NRPSs and PKSs. When directed at pests and pathogens, these small molecules can greatly ...
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Four interdisciplinary projects involving SIPS researchers are included among the 2016 Academic Venture Fund Awards from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Boosting Maize Yields Sustainably Farming systems that use ecological principles—rather than ...
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Phil Conklin, Sam Leiboff, and Kelly Swarts have been awarded NSF-PGRP postdoctoral fellowships for research projects addressing a wide range of questions related to maize. Phil, currently a ...
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $500,000 to Cornell University for the project ” Initiation of Cell Size Patterning in Arabidopsis” under the direction of Adrienne Roeder. The award is expected ...
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