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'Road testing' plants reveals photosynthesis secrets
The Kramer lab has published an article on groundbreaking technology that reveals the hidden workings of photosynthesis in living plants.
June 23, 2016
Hu co-authors paper on the regulation of plant stress response
The collaboration between Jianping Hu and Spanish researchers examines how peroxisomes and subcellular organelles detect and regulate the environmental stress response in plants.
June 10, 2016
Montgomery publishes on light harvesting efficiency
This fundamental photosynthesis research focuses on one cyanobacteria species in changing light environments.
June 7, 2016
Why this promising biofuel crop takes a summer break
By explaining a photosynthetic peculiarity in switchgrass, MSU researchers from the Walker lab may have unlocked even more of the plant’s potential.
Untying molecular knots: Making molecular simulations more efficient with LongBondEliminator
Researchers from the Vermaas lab created a more efficient tool to solve the problem of ring piercings in molecular simulations. This work is published in Biomolecules.
From colleagues to collaborators, a cross-department conversation links statistics to plant science
Complicated sets of biological data can be challenging to extrapolate meaningful information from. Wanting to find a better way to look at this data led Berkley Walker, assistant professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, to team up with statistician and Assistant Professor Chih-Li Sung from the Department of Statistics and Probability.