The 5th international "Fascination of Plants Day" 2019 (FoPD 2019) is set to be celebrated across the world under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) on the 18th of May. As you know, the goal is to…
Isabel01/05/2019
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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
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
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
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
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
By Zoraida Portillo (Perú) A joint initiative between NASA and the International Potato Centre (CIP), which is based in Peru, offers scientific evidence that it is possible to grow at least four types of potatoes on Mars. A scenario starring…
Isabel06/10/2017