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Researchers Seek Metal Miners in the Mustard Family

Posted on November 11, 2024

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.

Posted in NewsTagged flowering, Grant, plants

Research in Brief: The What, Why, and How

Posted on December 13, 2023

The timing of flowering can be essential to agricultural practices. Researchers in the Amasino Lab identified a gene that helps to regulate the biochemical pathway leading to flowering in grasses – a distinct, agriculturally important family of plants.

Posted in NewsTagged in-brief, plants, Research

Palmer Earns USDA Grant to Explore Sustainable Alternative to Fertilizer

Posted on August 23, 2023

Palmer will study interactions within the community of microbes living around the roots of corn plants and how these interactions impact the nitrogen available to the plant.

Posted in NewsTagged Awards, plants, postdocs, sustainability

Ralph awarded 2020 Groupe Polyphénols Scientific Grand Prize

Posted on August 13, 2020

Biochemistry Professor John Ralph has been awarded the 2020 Groupe Polyphénols Scientific Grand Prize by the Groupe Polyphenols Society. The award recognizes the contributions Ralph has made to the field of plant polyphenols.

Posted in NewsTagged Awards, lignins, plants, polyphenols

Relieving two headaches with one process

Posted on July 2, 2019

With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, biochemistry and energy researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to relieve two headaches at once.

Posted in NewsTagged acetaminophin, bioenergy, lignin, patent, plants, Research

Biochemists study plants to understand agriculture, energy, cell biology

Posted on August 3, 2018

Studies of plants in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry span everything from how they can be grown or consumed for agricultural or bioenergy purposes to a basic understanding of cell biology in plants and animals.

Posted in NewsTagged Highlights, plants, Research

For some plants, winter carries the keys to spring flowering

Posted on April 26, 2017

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.

Posted in NewsTagged flowering, Highlights, plants, Research, vernalization

Sussman and group identify key pathway for plant cell growth

Posted on January 27, 2014

Michael Sussman’s group have identified a key pathway for plant cell growth.

Posted in NewsTagged plants, Research

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