Research Collaboration Aims to Enhance Cereal Crop Resilience to Acidic Soils...
Acidic soil caused by changing climate patterns threatens agriculture sustainability across the globe. But the problem goes far beyond rising temperatures. One major cause for concern is more acidic...
View ArticleDanforth Center Selected as Project of a New Partnership Between NSF and...
In an exciting endorsement of the work being conducted at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, it was recently announced that technology developed by Keith Slotkin, PhD, member, and his...
View ArticlePioneering plant science research paves the way for deeper understanding of...
Researchers in the laboratory of Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD at the Danforth Plant Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are conducting pioneering work to discover how plants transmit...
View Article39 North Marks its First Year of Growth with New Collaboration Hub, Expanded...
Since the 39 North AgTech Innovation District was established as a nonprofit in April 2023, it has made significant progress on advancing its three strategic pillars: Developing the physical footprint;...
View ArticleResearchers uncover new mechanisms regulating plant response to temperature
Research led by Dmitri Nusinow, PhD, associate member, Danforth Plant Science Center, and former Nusinow graduate student Maria Sorkin, PhD, has identified a new protein complex in plants that...
View ArticleFirst Deaf, Black Woman Receives her PhD in a STEM Discipline
Graduate student Amie Fornah Sankoh recently stood in front of 150 colleagues family and friends at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to defend her thesis, Investigating the Effects of Salicylic...
View ArticleDanforth Center Scientist, Malia Gehan Named to Inaugural Class of TGI Fellows
Malia Gehan, PhD, assistant member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, was selected to be part of the Taylor Geospatial Institute's inaugural class of TGI Fellows. The program enables TGI member...
View ArticleNew Research Program Seeks to Identify Genes Key to Improving Resilience and...
In collaboration with researchers at Purdue and Hamline Universities, Ivan Baxter, PhD, member, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will lead a four-year, $2.5 million project to expand...
View ArticleWells Fargo Innovation Incubator Partnership with Danforth Plant Science...
The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN²), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy...
View ArticleMultinational collaborative research to improve climate-smart grain for...
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) have received a $4.9 million grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build on previous...
View ArticleResearch Collaboration Aims to Enhance Cereal Crop Resilience to Acidic Soils...
Acidic soil caused by changing climate patterns threatens agriculture sustainability across the globe. But the problem goes far beyond rising temperatures. One major cause for concern is more acidic...
View ArticleDanforth Center Selected as Project of a New Partnership Between NSF and...
In an exciting endorsement of the work being conducted at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, it was recently announced that technology developed by Keith Slotkin, PhD, member, and his...
View ArticlePioneering plant science research paves the way for deeper understanding of...
Researchers in the laboratory of Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD at the Danforth Plant Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are conducting pioneering work to discover how plants transmit...
View Article39 North Marks its First Year of Growth with New Collaboration Hub, Expanded...
Since the 39 North AgTech Innovation District was established as a nonprofit in April 2023, it has made significant progress on advancing its three strategic pillars: Developing the physical footprint;...
View ArticleSt. Louis Leaders Build on Successful Strategies to Bridge Agtech Innovation...
Building on efforts to bridge innovation between the St. Louis region and Latin America, a delegation of 10 St. Louis leaders is headed to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the World Agri-Tech South America Summit...
View ArticleNew tool enables faster, more cost-effective genome editing of traits to...
ST. LOUIS, MO., June 26, 2024 - With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, PhD, and his...
View ArticleDanforth Plant Science Center President & CEO Announces Leadership Transition...
Today, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center President and CEO Jim Carrington, PhD, announced he will step down on July 1, 2025. "I've been so fortunate to have had this opportunity over the past 13...
View ArticleDanforth Center Announces New Assistant Member
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced today that Nadia Shakoor, PhD, has joined as Assistant Member. She is an expert in sorghum genetics, a versatile and drought-resistant cereal grain...
View ArticleResearch collaboration to explore the impact of cover crops on soil health...
Christopher Topp, PhD, Member and Principal Investigator of the Danforth Plant Science Center and his lab members Marcus Griffiths, PhD and Kong Wong, PhD, have teamed up with colleagues at the...
View ArticleDanforth 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...
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