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An economist’s perspective on plant sciences: Under-appreciated, over-regulated and under-funded

David Zilberman Modified crops such as Golden Rice could have major benefits for people in developing nations. Image credit: IRRI Licensed under CC BY 2.0 By David Zilberman, Professor and Robinson Chair, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley When I…

Isabel06/06/2018

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When lipids meet hormones: plants’ answer to complex stresses

This blog has been reposted with permission from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Unlike animals, plants can’t run away when things get bad. That can be the weather changing or a caterpillar starting to slowly munch on a leaf. Instead, they…

Isabel16/05/2018

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Reflections from the “Feed the Future” conference in Burkina Faso

By Atsuko Kanazawa, Igor Houwat, Cynthia Donovan This article is reposted with permission from the Michigan State University team. You can find the original post here: MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory By Atsuko Kanazawa Atsuko Kanazawa is a plant scientist in the lab of…

Isabel24/01/2018

Blog Future Directions Interviews

Putting Big Data to Work with ARPA-E’s TERRA Program

This week we spoke to Dr. Joe Cornelius, the Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). His work focusses on bioenergy production and conversion as a renewable and sustainable energy source, transportation fuel, and chemical feedstock,…

Isabel03/11/2017

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Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

Reposted with kind permission from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Original article. By: Igor Houwat, Atsuko Kanazawa, David Kramer The need for speed: increasing plant yield is one way to increase food and fuel resources. But asking plants to simply do…

Isabel11/10/2017

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An economist’s perspective on plant sciences: Under-appreciated, over-regulated and under-funded

When lipids meet hormones: plants’ answer to complex stresses

Reflections from the “Feed the Future” conference in Burkina Faso

Putting Big Data to Work with ARPA-E’s TERRA Program

Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

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