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… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping … sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the …

… around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their … crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … —have expanded the network of common gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted …