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April 20, 2001 Ag research award winner to speak
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Chapple's lecture, "Agriculture to Arabidopsis and Back Again," will be presented 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in Room 116, Whistler Hall of Agricultural Research.
A professor of biochemistry at Purdue University, Chapple has discovered genes that alter how much of certain materials are produced within plants.
His findings could make it possible to produce plastics from crop plants, to produce paper cheaper and with less environmental damage, or to create plants that could be used to make more inexpensive biofuels.
Much of Chapple's research has involved the Arabidopsis plant, a small mustard plant that is often used by scientists in laboratory experiments. By finding the role of basic genes in this plant, scientists such as Chapple are able to manipulate genes in other plants, including crops.
His lecture is free and open to the public.
CONTACT: Nancy Aldridge, (765) 494-8362; nalridge@purdue.edu.
Compiled by Beth Forbes, (765) 494-2722, bforbes@aes.purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
PHOTO CAPTION:
Biochemist Clint Chapple withdraws a specimen of Arabidopsis from a growth chamber in a laboratory at Purdue University. Chapple, recipient of the 2001 Agricultural Research Award, has cloned a gene from the plant that will make it easier for crop plants to produce precursors for plastics. (Purdue Department of Agricultural Communication File Photo by Tom Campbell).
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