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International Collaboration Aims to Develop High-Yielding Pest-and Disease-Resistant Cassava, Maize and Potatoes

An international collaboration has announced a public-private partnership to develop high-yielding pest-and disease-resistant cassava, maize and potatoes to benefit more than 500,000 farm households in Rwanda.
7-Jan-2025 10:20 AM EST Add to Favorites

New Collaboration Aims to Optimize Crop Nutrient Uptake and Tolerance to Environmental Stress for More Sustainable Agriculture

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Enhanced Nature (EN), together with its parent company Symbiotic Sciences (SS), today announced a joint program to develop methods to accelerate and optimize the in vitro growth of AMF (arbuscular...
10-Dec-2024 10:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

Solis Agrosciences Acquires Genomics Platform to Provide Genotyping and Bioinformatics Services to Agriculture Companies

Solis will provide end-to-end genomics services enabling better-informed decisions, resulting in the development of more productive and resilient plants and animals
19-Nov-2024 3:15 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Danforth Technology Company Launches New Startup

The Danforth Technology Company (DTC) today announced the launch of Metablify, a startup that has developed a breakthrough technology platform that enables the detection and quantification of previously undetectable metabolites and chemicals in...
28-Oct-2024 9:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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New Tool Enables a More Complete and Rapid Decoding of the Language of Algal Gene Expression

A new method that research teams can use to measure and compare different forms of proteins and protein complexes helped reveal a previously unseen molecular signature of how algal genomes are controlled during the cell cycle.
23-Oct-2024 9:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Plant Science Research Collaboration Will Explore Key Mosses Critical to Storing Carbon

Plant scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have been awarded a four-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) grant to advance their...
9-Oct-2024 9:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

The Academy of Science of St. Louis Names Katherine Polokonis as Executive Director

The academy of science of st. Louis names katherine polokonis as executive director
25-Sep-2024 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Danforth Plant Science Center Announces New Principal Investigator

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced today that Kevin Cox, PhD, has joined as an assistant member. Cox will hold a joint appointment as an assistant professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. A native St. Louisan, Cox...
21-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Harnessing the Power of Perennial Plants for Sustainable Agriculture

Matthew Rubin鈥檚 research is focused on perennial plants, or 鈥渓ong-lived鈥� plants, seeking to increase our understanding of these plants across their lifetime. Perennial plants offer many benefits to agriculture and our environment. They develop...
9-May-2022 10:25 AM EDT

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About The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Founded in 1998, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a not-for-profit research institute with a mission to improve the human condition through plant science. Research, education and outreach aim to have impact at the nexus of food security and the environment, and position the St. Louis region as a world center for plant science. The Center鈥檚 work is funded through competitive grants from many sources, including the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

To keep up to date with Danforth Center鈥檚 current operations and areas of research, please visit, www.danforthcenter.org, featuring information on Center scientists, news and the 鈥淩oots & Shoots鈥� blog. Follow us on Twitter at @DanforthCenter.