Scientists have transferred a collection of genes into plant-colonizing bacteria that let them draw nitrogen from the air and turn it into ammonia, a natural fertilizer.
WSU scientist is part of a $4 million effort to develop a better way to produce taxol, a chemotherapy drug that was discovered in the bark of Pacific Yew trees.
The best relationships take time to come together, work on many different levels, and can accomplish great things. WSU’s growing collaboration with Germany’s interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) is adding a global…
Ancient microbes that thrive in some of the world’s most extreme environments and modern-day humans both respire and conserve energy using a similar molecular mechanism.
WSU team receives $500,000 grant to study the connection between phosphorylase and photosynthesis, potentially leading to faster growing, larger crops.