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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Research in Brief: The What, Why, and How
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.
Palmer Earns USDA Grant to Explore Sustainable Alternative to Fertilizer
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.
Ralph awarded 2020 Groupe Polyphénols Scientific Grand Prize
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.
Relieving two headaches with one process
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.
Biochemists study plants to understand agriculture, energy, cell biology
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.
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.
Sussman and group identify key pathway for plant cell growth
Michael Sussman’s group have identified a key pathway for plant cell growth.