Former HLA grad students Asmaa Morsi, Mokhles Elsysy, and Dr. Cary Mitchell, along with NASA and aerospace industry colleagues, are publishing an article in the Journal of Life Sciences in Space Research related to cut-and-come-again harvest of mizuna mustard growing in the Veggie plant-growth units onboard the International Space Station, to supplement astronaut diets and[Read More…]
Ying Li, Natalia Dudareva, and Erich Grotewold (Michigan State University) recently published a review paper entitled “Enough is enough: feedback control of specialized metabolism” in Trends in Plant Science. Abstract: Recent advances in our understanding of plant metabolism have highlighted the significance of specialized metabolites in the regulation of gene expression associated with biosynthetic networks.[Read More…]
Lidysce Andrea Mata is a new visiting scholar in the Meyers’ weed science lab. She was born and raised in Honduras, where she’s currently senior undergrad student at Zamorano University. She joined the Meyers’ lab to fulfill a “professional experience” requirement to graduate from the Agricultural Sciences and Production major at Zamorano University, but also because she is deeply[Read More…]
Nemali lab published an article titled “Connecting the dots: Path model to identify key phenotypic traits for screening plants with tolerance to nitrogen deficiency” in Plos One. The published research compared several physiological traits at the cellular, leaf, and whole-plant scales in nitrogen sensitive and tolerant poinsettia cultivars exposed to both optimal and N-deficient conditions,[Read More…]
