PULLMAN, Wash. – The recent discovery by Washington State University scientists that a barley plant can detect an invader and within five minutes start to build its resistance to attack is just the latest in a long, fruitful history of research regarding the ways plants communicate.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Traditional thought holds that a disease-causing organism has to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance. Now, two Washington State University scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal its defenses within five minutes of an attack. The discovery, along with the scientists’ successful cloning of barley’s […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Norman G. Lewis, Washington State University Regents’ Professor and director of the Institute for Biological Chemistry, is the newest member of Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters.
Pullman, Wash. – Washington State University’s plant biosciences building officially will be named the Orville A. Vogel Plant Biosciences Building at a public ceremony scheduled for 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, inside the northwest entrance. Vogel served as a USDA Agriculture Research Service scientist and a WSU faculty member from 1931 to 1972. He and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University scientists conducting research on plants and animals are among the most productive in the nation, according to a survey measuring faculty scholarly productivity published recently in The Chronicle for Higher Education. WSU plant scientists were ranked the fifth most productive in the United States. WSU’s zoology program ranked No.10 […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Media tours of Washington State University’s new $39 million Plant Biosciences building are available from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 14. Reporters will receive an overview briefing on the building; see teaching labs on the first floor; and visit research laboratories on the upper floors, which are not open to the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Waist-high corn stalks laden with full-size ears; squash plants that don’t sprawl over half your yard; a miniature tomato plant offering hefty red fruits to astronauts weary of freeze-dried food: these are just a few of the possibilities raised by new research at Washington State University. Lead investigator B.W. (Joe) Poovaiah and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire is scheduled to deliver the keynote remarks at the grand opening ceremony of Washington State University’s Plant Biosciences Building on Friday, Oct. 14. The event will be held from 2 to 3 p.m on the building’s southwest patio at the intersection of Stadium Way and Wilson Road (across […]