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SAN DIEGO and LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute and Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) today announced a new project to advance plant-based carbon capture and sequestration research, education and implementation to help …
Joanne Chory, who pioneered the application of molecular genetics to plant biology and transformed our understanding of photosynthesis, will receive the 2020 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rockefeller’s preeminent award recognizing …
LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute has promoted Wolfgang Busch to the rank of professor for his groundbreaking contributions to plant biology. The promotion was based on recommendations by Salk faculty and …
LA JOLLA—Todd Michael will return to Salk as a research professor in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, where he will oversee his own research group as well as …
LA JOLLA—Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. One role of plant hormones is to perceive trouble—whether an insect attack, drought or intense heat or cold—and then signal …
LA JOLLA—Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI) will receive a $12.5 million gift from Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) to advance two projects to enhance plants’ natural ability to store carbon and …
LA JOLLA—Father of genetics Gregor Mendel spent years tediously observing and measuring pea plant traits by hand in the 1800s to uncover the basics of genetic inheritance. Today, botanists can …
LA JOLLA—Plants can do many amazing things. Among their talents, they can manufacture compounds that help them repel pests, attract pollinators, cure infections and protect themselves from excess temperatures, drought …
LA JOLLA—Iron is essential for plant growth, but with heavy rainfall and poor aeration, many acidic soils become toxic with excess iron. In countries with dramatic flood seasons, such as …
LA JOLLA—Hidden underground networks of plant roots snake through the earth foraging for nutrients and water, similar to a worm searching for food. Yet, the genetic and molecular mechanisms that …
LA JOLLA—What will a three-degree-warmer world look like? How will plants fare in more extreme weather conditions? When experiencing stress or damage from various sources, plants use chloroplast-to-nucleus communication to …
LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative to combat climate change using plants, led by Professor Joanne Chory, executive director of the Harnessing Plants Initiative, will receive funding of more …
LA JOLLA—Salk researchers have mapped the genomes and epigenomes of genetically modified plant lines with the highest resolution ever to reveal exactly what happens at a molecular level when a …
LA JOLLA—When a building is damaged, a general contractor often oversees various subcontractors—framers, electricians, plumbers and drywall hangers—to ensure repairs are done in the correct order and on time.
Similarly, …
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute and Purdue University scientists have discovered the switch in plants that turns off production of terpenoids—carbon-rich compounds that play roles in plant physiology and are used by …
LA JOLLA—Not all of your genome needs to be active at any given time. Some regions are prone to hopping around the genome in problematic ways if left unchecked; others …
LA JOLLA—When you see brown spots on otherwise healthy green leaves, you may be witnessing a plant’s immune response as it tries to keep a bacterial infection from spreading. Some …
Jeff Bezos announces nearly $800 million in grants to 16 groups fighting climate change
November 17, 2020
– CNN
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos gives Salk Institute $30 million to help fight climate change
November 17, 2020
– The San Diego Union Tribune
Bezos makes first donations from $10 billion Earth Fund for fighting climate change
November 16, 2020
– The Washington Post
San Diego Scientists Hope Plants Can Store A Lot More Carbon
November 12, 2020
– KPBS
The Sorghum Solution?: The Salk Institute’s plant-based research to battle climate change gets a boost
November 10, 2020
– The San Diego Union Tribune
The weeds that could save the world
October 18, 2020
– Palatinate
Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative is featured in various outlets:
Episode 3 of a PBS series called “The Age of Nature.” Watch episode »
September, 2020
– KPBS
Carbon-Sucking Bionic Weeds Are New Front in Climate Change War
September 25, 2020
– Bloomberg Businessweek
Cropland vs Climate Change: A Conversation with Wolfgang Busch
September 1, 2020
– Discover Magazine
Into the Light: A Profile of Joanne Chory
March 1, 2020
– The Scientist
The power of plants to fight climate change
December, 2019
– The Economist
Genetic influence on root growth discovered
September 26, 2019
– The Western Producer
Salk Scientists Plan To Combat Climate Change With Plants
August 17, 2019
– KPBS
Can ‘Supercharged’ Plants Solve the Climate Crisis?
July 20, 2019
– Foreign Policy
Deep roots, edited genes and a plan to fight climate change with supercharged plants
July 18, 2019
– New Atlas
By making plant roots grow deeper, these geneticists hope to curb climate change
July 17, 2019
– PBS News Hour
The five: genetic fixes for the climate crisis
July 14, 2019
– The Guardian
Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Plants to Fight Climate Change
July 12, 2019
– Vice
The Plan to Grab the World’s Carbon with Supercharged Plants
April 26, 2019
– Wired
Scientists work to alter plants to fight climate crisis
April 17, 2019
– CNN
Salk Institute gets $35 million for ‘audacious’ plan to fight global warming with carbon-hungry plants
April 16, 2019
– The San Diego Union Tribune
Could a superplant save the planet?
Jan 31, 2019
– Financial Times
Scientists aim to fight climate change with super plants
Nov 17, 2017
– LA Times
Salk scientists describe strategy to address climate change using plants
Voice of America (VOA)