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Congratulations to Christoph Benning, who was named Fellow by the American Society of Plant Biologists this year. blog.aspb.org/2025-aspb-awar…

Congratulations to Jenny Schuster, Luke Sharpe and Mitchell Ticoras, recipients of the Inaugural MPS Award for Leadership in Community Building and Outreach. Jenny, Luke and Mitch have made outstanding contributions in the MSU community for student recruitment and development.

We're pleased to announce the awardees of the MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social Seed Grant Spring 2025 Cycle (Cohort 3), Huija Gong & Bailey Kleven, for their collaboration on a project titled "Unraveling the mechanism of sulfur signaling in plant growth-resilience tradeoffs"! plantresilience.msu.edu/resources/fund…

Congrats to Sophie Cannon and Liam Markell for graduating! Both Sophie and Liam were exceptional undergraduate assistants in the Howe lab.

Please join us in congratulating Ducat lab Postdoc Manos Kokarakis for receiving the Reddy Endowed Award! mgi.natsci.msu.edu/academics/curr…

Check out this new research by Vermaas lab published in Crop Science titled, "Synthesis, function, and genetic variation of sorgoleone, the major biological nitrification inhibitor in sorghum." acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Christoph Benning with MSU College of Natural Science, Jianguo "Jack" Liu with MSU College of Natural Science and EEB at MSU, and Philip Robertson with MSU CANR and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences! go.msu.edu/rGk5

It was a lot of fun to have Daniela Strenkert from MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory visit us and present her research on Ferredoxins last week 🥰 Carnegie Science

Christoph Benning is among the 120 members and 30 international members of the National Academy of Sciences being recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research! Read more about his achievements here: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/nati…

New research from Vermaas lab published in Protein Science titled "Identifying and quantifying membrane interactions of the protein human cis-prenyltransferase" Read more about it here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pr…

Here is some new research from Kramer lab published by New Phytologist Foundation: "Seasonal and intracanopy shifts in the fates of absorbed photons in central Amazonian forests: implications for leaf fluorescence and photosynthesis" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Amazon trees under pressure! New study reveals how forest giants handle light and heat. The MultispeQ, a tool developed by David Kramer in the MSU-DOE Plant Research lab, was used to help capture how leaves in natural settings balance incoming light. canr.msu.edu/news/amazon-tr…

Read all about it! Check out the latest news from the Plant Research Laboratory: mailchi.mp/msu/prl-newsle…

New research! Interested in how volatile isoprenoids improve plant thermotolerance? Check out this article for more details! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What's this? New research shows that directionally challenged proteins lead to eye and neurological disease? If you'd like to know more, read all about the research here: natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025…

Some plants make their own pesticide — but at what cost to the atmosphere? Tom Sharkey and his lab have published findings that could provide a path for engineering plants that are more resilient to environmental change and pest outbreaks. Read more: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/some…

Check out this article about soybeans and their cryptic emission of isoprene! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New research from Trends in Plant Science titled "Nutrient cues control flowering time in plants". Read all about it in their new article here: cell.com/trends/plant-s…

📢 There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit an abstract to present a poster at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference! Submit your #GLPSC2025 poster abstract by Monday, June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET at: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

Something new is brewing... A new project is underway that could help researchers have a better understanding of an important piece of Earth’s evolutionary history. Check out this article by Kara Headley here: natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025…