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No eyes, no brain, no problem

Communications Department — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:30:43 +0000

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CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

Margaret Osborne — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:30:59 +0000

Since the dawn of agriculture around 10,000 years ago, our ancestors have saved seeds from the tastiest, largest, and most resilient crops to plant in the following season. Today, most fruits and vegetables we buy are the result of hundreds to thousands of years of selective breeding. Now, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) plant biologists...

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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:30:53 +0000

At first glance, Uplands Farm—12 carefully tended acres about a mile east of the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) campus—resembles farms you might have seen before. Orderly rows of corn dominate the fields, sharing space with sorghum, eggplants, and other crops. Three greenhouses shelter young plants, extending the growing season so they can flourish in...

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Environmental science’s Cold Spring Harbor origin

Nick Wurm — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:30:05 +0000

center) poses beside Dr. Charles Hodge IV (right) during a moment of downtime at Cold Spring Harbor in the summer of 1929. After meeting here, the two scientists would marry and start a family. Inspired by her time at CSHL, Dr. Patrick’s studies would help launch the field of environmental management. Image: Hodge family archive" data-description="" />Travel back in time to any year in ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Meetings & Courses history. You’d find yourself rubbing elbows with Nobel laureates, groundbreaking researchers, and promising students from a wide range of scientific disciplines. Return to the summer of 1929 and you might encounter two young scientists relaxing in the sun on...

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CSHL’s Thomas Gingeras awarded $2 million NSF grant

Nick Wurm — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:30:15 +0000

Climate change threatens crops across the globe. But the problem goes far beyond rising temperatures. One major cause for concern is more acidic soil, a product of increasing rainfall. This can result in aluminum toxicity, putting further stress on global agriculture. A new project at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) seeks to find solutions at...

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At the Lab Episode 1: The tomato of tomorrow

Marc Persad — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:00:37 +0000

Picture a tiny silo of tasty tomatoes growing in a dense urban environment. Now imagine that same setup … in outer space! It all starts At the Lab. For our premiere episode, we visit the lab of ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor & HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman to catch a glimpse at the future of...

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: Uprooting climate change

Communications Department — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:30:39 +0000

Pull up a stool to watch CSHL Associate Professor Ullas Pedmale speak about plants and climate change at Industry bar in Huntington, NY.

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Cocktails & Chromosomes is back—watch now, but BYOB!

Communications Department — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:00:15 +0000

CSHL NeuroAI Scholar Kyle Daruwalla speaks to a standing-room-only crowd about AI’s energy efficiency problem.

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CSHL’s Cocktails & Chromosomes series returns this summer

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:30:44 +0000

Cocktails & Chromosomes." data-description="" />��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Cocktails & Chromosomes series is back for the first time since 2019. This fun and free event series brings together CSHL scientists and the public for free-flowing discussions on a range of stimulating topics. Hear why ChatGPT won’t be running the 100-yard dash anytime soon. Or how new salad recipes...

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Climate-control technology future-proofs plants

Communications Department — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:30:45 +0000

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New CSHL technology controls the weather and time itself

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:30:31 +0000

Just like baking a cake, growing crops isn’t only a science. It’s also an art. There’s a perfect recipe of light, water, air, and nutrients needed for plants to flower just right. Tragically, climate change jeopardizes all of these ingredients. But what if plant growers could somehow control the weather? What if they could harness...

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The tiny plant tackling climate change

Nick Wurm — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:30:42 +0000

Fossil fuels are killing the planet. Oil-producing plants like oil palm and soybeans could make for sustainable replacements. And yet, each of them also has a significant environmental impact. But now, thanks to plant biologists in New York, the humble aquatic duckweed plant may offer a more sustainable source of oil for biofuels and other...

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CSHL groundcherry research bears new fruits

Nick Wurm — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:30:32 +0000

Over 34 million people in the U.S. don’t have enough food. More diverse and adaptable crops are needed to address challenges in food production made worse by climate change. Small, sweet berries called groundcherries may not feed the country, but along with other related “orphan crops,” they could strengthen food supplies. Unfortunately, these distant relatives...

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How tweaking genes keeps corn and rice on your plate

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 18 May 2022 11:30:14 +0000

an plant scientists keep up with a changing world? It took thousands of years of breeding for farmers to transform the wild ancestors of corn and rice into the staples that we grow and consume on a massive scale. But to keep up with population growth, climate change, and other pressures, those crops will have...

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New CSHL website brings together sorghum researchers

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 09 May 2022 11:30:49 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have created a website called SorghumBase that serves as the first centralized hub for sorghum crop research. The hub, open to anyone, pools together existing and emerging genetic, genomic, and breeding data and resources worldwide to facilitate crop improvement efforts. Doreen Ware, a...

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The race to protect sweet corn

Communications Department — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:30:32 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » We may not always call it sweet corn, but we enjoy this American staple nearly daily. It’s sweet corn that we grill on the Fourth of July, charring the golden ears to get a smoky tang. It’s sweet corn that we buy at summer farmers’ markets to boil and...

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The secret history of corn is revealed in its genome

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:00:39 +0000

Humans adapt through language and culture, passing down knowledge from one generation to the next. Corn plants can’t talk, so they solve the problem of adaptability in a different way: they use “jumping genes” to shuffle the genetic deck over generations. Jumping genes—now called transposons—were discovered by Nobel Prize-winning ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) geneticist...

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How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work.

Communications Department — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:00:28 +0000

Forty-nine million years ago, a small aquatic fern called Azolla took control of Earth’s climate. At the time, the landlocked Arctic Ocean developed a surface layer of freshwater, which allowed the ferns to grow unchecked in a wide-open environment. Over time, billions of tons of the plants died and sank to the bottom of the...

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Designing crops for a changing climate

Communications Department — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:30:37 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » In the face of climate change, engineering genetic modifications into new crops will ensure future food supplies. When you bite into an ear of fresh corn, you are eating something profoundly unnatural. A modern ear is a big, flavorful vegetable packed with 18 rows of plump kernels. Its sad-looking...

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A new tomato ideal for urban gardens and even outer space

Brian Stallard — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:00:38 +0000

Farmers could soon be growing tomatoes bunched like grapes in a storage unit, on the roof of a skyscraper, or even in space. That’s if a clutch of new gene-edited crops prove as fruitful as the first batch. The primary goal of this new research is to engineer a wider variety of crops that can...

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