Mission
Our mission is to discover, maintain, and transmit knowledge concerning basic plant biology and provide leadership in the biological sciences.
Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances
The plants produce a protein that only fluoresces around calcium, letting the researchers track its presence and concentration. Then came caterpillar bites, scissor cuts and crushing wounds.
An ocean apart, carnivorous pitcher plants create similar communities
Asian pitchers transplanted to Massachusetts bogs can mimic the living communities of natives so well that the pitcher plant mosquito — a specialized insect that evolved to complete its life cycle exclusively in North American pitchers — lays eggs in the impostors, new research shows.
Greenhouses contend with the climate to keep plants growing
The university's greenhouses, which include plants from all over the world, provide study material for botany and horticulture courses and the precisely controlled climates required for research experiments.
Events
- September
- September 27Biology Colloquium: Gay ReinartzAssessing bonobo and forest elephant populations in the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo3:30 PM, B302 Birge Hall
- October
- October 4Evolution Seminar SeriesInger Skrede, University of Oslo 12:30 PM, 1360 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building
- October 4Biology Colloquium: Norm WickettApplying phylogenomic datasets to multiple scales in diverse organisms, from Onagraceae to mosses to diatoms3:30 PM, B302 Birge Hall
- October 11Biology Colloquium: Anna SalaPonderosa pine survival to mountain pine beetle: growth rate tradeoffs, resin duct defenses and genetic drought predisposition3:30 PM, B302 Birge Hall
