Science news articles about 'plant biology laboratory'

... RNA silencing. Ecker, a professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory and director of the Salk Institute Genomic ... reveal something not seen before: the mutant plant cells were churning out small RNAs made ...

... Chory, a professor in the Salk Institute's Plant Biology Laboratory. "What we found is a whole raft of genes ... predawn hours to allow a wave of multiple plant growth hormones to act within the cells ...

... on fruit ripening and flower fading, the gaseous plant hormone ethylene shortens the shelf life of ... Ecker, Ph.D., a professor in the Plant Biology laboratory and director of the Salk Institute Genomic ...

... Joanne Chory, Ph.D., in the Plant Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute and former lab ... reflection of far-red light from neighboring plants. "When the major photoreceptor for shade avoidance detects ...

... abscisic acid (ABA), produced naturally by plants, has emerged over the last 30 years as the key ... Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant used widely in plant biology laboratories as a model organism. His ...

... Norwich, as regius professor of plant science at Edinburgh University, and as director of the plant biology laboratory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His research aimed to understand ...