Thursday, October 09, 2014What could the natural diversity and beauty of plant leaves have in common with one of mankind’s greatest creative inventions, the violin? Much more than you might imagine.
Friday, October 03, 2014The Plant Pulse is a feature of the Danforth Center Roots and Shoots Blog that includes a sampling of interesting stories about world hunger and malnutrition, food security, climate change, biofuels, agriculture, the environment, conferences and events, and the impact of plant science.
Wednesday, October 01, 2014To illustrate the research of Dan Chitwood at the Danforth Center, photographer Craig Cutler translated the science into a visual narrative for National Geographic.
Monday, September 29, 2014This year’s event was very social on Twitter by using the hashtag #MacroOfMicro and having the ability to access an online social media directory.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014We welcome you to learn more and interact with the speakers, panelists and event organizers during the three day event. Here is this year's Social Media Directory for your use of Twitter handles of many of those participating during Fall Symposium. We look forward to your Tweets!
Monday, September 22, 2014Roots & Shoots’ September Guest blogger, Kaoutar El Mounadi, Ph.D., from Dilip Shah's Lab explains her research on how to devise more effective strategies for genetic engineering of resistance to fungal and oomycete pathogens in transgenic plants and to ensure their mammalian and crop safety.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Leadership Council hosted physicist Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chief Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute as the featured speaker for SEEDS of Change. More than 300 guests attended the annual event on September 16, 2014.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014Last month, guests gathered for the Center’s Conversations program. Dr. Danforth took a moment to recognize and thank Dr. Jim Davis for his support and for serving as moderator of Conversations program for many years.
Monday, September 08, 2014We welcome you to learn more and interact with the presenters, speakers, panelists and event organizers during the three day event. Here is this year's Social Media Directory for your use of Twitter handles of many of those participating during Ag Innovation Showcase. We look forward to your Tweets!
Friday, September 05, 2014For Hernan, it’s been a long journey from the young boy in Centrál, Mexico, who wondered why the village farmers could not grow zucchini and tomato, to becoming a scientific leader in the study of plant viruses.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014Lovins, who was named by Time Magazine as one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009, had the solution to the energy problem in 1976. It's taken the rest of us years to catch up.
Friday, August 29, 2014The Plant Pulse is a feature of the Danforth Center Roots and Shoots Blog that includes a sampling of interesting stories about world hunger and malnutrition, food security, climate change, biofuels, agriculture, the environment, conferences and events, and the impact of plant science.
Thursday, August 28, 2014The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is pleased to announce Erica Fishel, Ph.D.; as director of technology transfer.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chief Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will be the featured speaker at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s annual SEEDS of CHANGE event on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014Join us Thursday, August 28, as featured panelists Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Ph.D., Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Scott Woodbury, Curator, Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve discuss the important role that prairie grasses and cereal crops play in agriculture along with the contributions of cutting-edge science and technology.
Monday, August 04, 2014Training infuses all of the Danforth Center’s research programs. Students come to the Center from around the world. Our outreach and education programs bring cutting-edge, genuine scientific research to K–12 classrooms across the region.
Friday, August 01, 2014The Plant Pulse is a feature of the Danforth Center Roots and Shoots Blog that includes a sampling of interesting stories about world hunger and malnutrition, food security, climate change, biofuels, agriculture, the environment, conferences and events, and the impact of plant science.
Monday, July 28, 2014As millions of Americans hit the road this summer, they are paying the most expensive gas prices in six years. This gasoline sticker shock was one more reminder of the need to develop an abundant and sustainable supply of alternative fuels.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014As PLOS Biology points out, this research is important with the knowledge of how plants works, particularly algae and the distinction of females and males and secondly this will help improve the prospects of algae as a biofuel crop and potential breeding programs with the availability to tune the process as of source as oil.
Wednesday, July 09, 2014James C. Carrington, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is among the world's most highly cited scientists, according to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers.