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Tag: Plants

$900K NSF Grant

October 10, 2017
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| cell biology, Funding, Gloria Muday, plants, research
arabadopsis plants

The National Science Foundation awarded $900,000 to an interdisciplinary group led by Dr. Gloria Muday examining how hormones affect growth and development of the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana, which is a genetic model used to provide insight into other plants. This collaborative grant brings together researchers in biology, computer science and mathematics who began working together…

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Posted in cell biology, Funding, Gloria Muday, plants, research Tagged Muday, Outreach, Plants, Research

From One Forest to Another

December 18, 2013
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| Climate, ecology, Faculty, Miles Silman, plants, research, silman

Several news agencies have published stories recently about unique research conducted by Max Messinger and Miles Silman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Silman’s group is making use of “flying robots” to photograph and measure data from the forest canopy.  Messinger is the local expert on how to turn these small multi-bladed helicopters into a…

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Posted in Climate, ecology, Faculty, Miles Silman, plants, research, silman Tagged Climate, Ecology, Plants, Research

Green Fruit, Deep Roots

September 22, 2011
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| Gloria Muday, muday, Outreach, plants, research

Wake Forest University’s Campus Garden overflows with tomatoes. But, with names like Never Ripe and Green Ripe, many will never be the rich, red orbs you’d slice up for sandwiches. These tomatoes – mutant varieties bred for research – will help Gloria K. Muday, Ph.D., a professor of biology, determine how the hormone ethylene can…

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Posted in Gloria Muday, muday, Outreach, plants, research Tagged Outreach, Plants, Research

Location, Location, Location

September 22, 2011
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| ecology, plants, silman

Just how many plant species are threatened by land development in the Amazon? Biology Professor Miles Silman and research Ken Feeley published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the degree to which plant species are threatened is highly location dependent.  The article in Conservation Magazine, “Location, Location, Location,…

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Tropical Plant Collections May Predicting Climate Impacts

September 22, 2011
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| Climate, ecology, plants, silman

Missing Pieces David Malakoff | January 27, 2011  | Conservation Magazine Sparse tropical plant collections complicate efforts to predict climate impacts Want to know if that Amazonian orchid you love so much is likely to survive a warming climate? Don’t hold your breath. Efforts to create models that predict how distributions of tropical species might shift…

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