true06/15/2022MSU's Jianping Hu receives NSF grant to shed light on plant growth, reproduction

Jianping Hu, professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) and the Department of Plant Biology, received a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the motility of cellular energy organelles, peroxisomes and mitochondria in particular, along the cytoskeleton in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Confocal microscopy image shows peroxisome movement along actin bundles in a tobacco epidermal cellConfocal microscopy image shows peroxisome movement along actin bundles in a tobacco epidermal cellAwardsHu lab