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Plant Biologist Siobhan Brady Named HHMI Investigator

Andy Fell — July 23, 2024 - 12:11pm

Siobhan Brady, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. The prestigious Investigator program, which Brady describes as “life changing,” will provide her with roughly $9 million in research support over a seven-year term, with the option to renew.

Drought Changes Root Microbiome

Andy Fell — July 22, 2021 - 8:01am

Drought can have a lasting impact on the community of microbes that live in and around roots of rice plants, a team led by ΢��Ƶ researchers has found. Root-associated microbes help plants take up nutrients from the soil, so the finding could help in understanding how rice responds to dry spells and how it can be made more resilient to drought. The work is published July 22 in Nature Plants.

Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought

Andy Fell — May 18, 2021 - 8:35am

University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.

Gene Network Lets Plant Roots Handle Nitrogen

Andy Fell — October 24, 2018 - 9:45am

With robotics, computers and advanced genetics, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have established a core set of genes that help plants metabolize nitrogen, the key to plant growth and crop yield. They published their findings Oct. 24 in the journal Nature.

Plant Scientist Named as Hughes Scholar

Andy Fell — September 22, 2016 - 4:32pm

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Siobhan Brady, a plant scientist at ΢��Ƶ, among the 2016 class of HHMI Faculty Scholars. The award will support Brady’s research on gene networks that regulate growth of plant roots for the next five years.