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Plants can communicate through volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as what we perceive as scent. Shannon Stirling and members of Natalia Dudareva’s lab, in collaboration with researchers from UC Davis, were featured in Science's...
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Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, a botany and plant pathology professor, has been named head of Purdue University’s Department of Horticulture and...
Josh Widhalm, associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture (HLA), has been appointed and assumed the responsibilities of director...
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has joined an effort to mobilize plants as chemical intelligence gatherers. Collaborating with...
Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for...
In 2010, Jianxin Ma, a professor of agronomy, and his collaborators built the first reference genome for soybeans on the widely studied Williams 82...