MSU Plant Biology Department
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Activities and News
  • Congratulations to Mike Grillo.  Mike has been awarded the ASPB-Pioneer Hi-Bred International Graduate Student Prize.  The award is for students working on basic plant biology research related to cropping systems.  He will be acknowledged formally for this award at the ASPB meetings this summer.
  • Nathan Sammons will be the recipient of the 2008 College of Natural Science Excellence-In-Teaching Citation.  Nate will receive the award at the annual CNS Awards and Scholarship Convocation on Tuesday, April 22 at the Kellogg Center.  Congratulations Nate!
  • Congratulations to Professor Rich Triemer who will receive a 2008 College of Natural Science Distinguished Faculty Award at the annual CNS Awards and Scholarship Convocation on Tuesday, April 22.
Recent Publications

Chloroplast 2010 Collaborators make Cover of Plant Physiology

The research of collaborators Yan Lu, Linda J. Savage, Imad Ajjawi, Kathleen M. Imre, David W. Yoder, Christoph Benning, Dean DellaPenna, John B. Ohlrogge, Katherine W. Osteryoung, Andreas P. Weber, Curtis G. Wilkerson, and Robert L. Last, is featured as a cover article of the April 2008 issue of Plant Physiology.

Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, Chloroplast 2010 involves the analysis of thousands of nuclear genes encoding proteins targeted to the plastid in Arabidopsis using Arabidopsis functional genomics. The collaborating laboratories are in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Plant Biology at MSU.




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