Items Tagged “Feedstocks”

JBEI researchers develop efficient and affordable method for plant DNA assembly.

JBEI’s Director of Plant Systems Biology was one of 50 extraordinary scientists who was selected to participate alongside business and political leaders in the World Economic Forum’s Meeting of the New Champions.

Pam Ronald, Director of JBEI’s Grass Genetics program, led a study that identified a bacterial signaling molecule that triggers an immunity response in rice plants, enabling the plants to resist a devastating blight disease. In addition to being a staple food, rice is the model for grass-type biofuels.