With funding from the Department of Energy, Rick Amasino is leading an international team seeking to enhance plants’ abilities to mine nickel from naturally enriched soils.
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Ancient gene duplication gave grasses multiple ways to wait out winter
Professor Rick Amasino’s group have finally discovered how grasses count the short days of winter to prepare for flowering. Their work is published in the journal eLife.
For some plants, winter carries the keys to spring flowering
What happens to plants as they enter spring? What’s the science that governs the growing season for different plants? Plant biochemist Rick Amasino shares some answers in this Q&A.