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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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CSHL goes to the White House for Easter EGGucation

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:30:20 +0000

Plant biology and science education are in ��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) DNA. Recently, two CSHL plant scientists brought their expertise from the lab to the White House lawn for an event hosted by First Lady Jill Biden. Since 2022, the White House’s annual “EGGucation” Roll has used fun Easter-themed activities to teach kids about...

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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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Do you have the dirt on plant research?

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:30:44 +0000

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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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Teachers make genomes more useful… from home

Brian Stallard — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:00:57 +0000

Imagine a book written with all the right words, but no spaces between words, no punctuation, no chapter headings—it would look like a senseless string of letters one after the other. That is what the first draft of a genome sequence looks like. To make sense of the long string of letters, scientists have programmed...

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CSHL investigators rank among world’s most highly cited

Brian Stallard — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:00:14 +0000

Seven researchers affiliated with ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have been named among the scientists producing the top 1 percent of the most highly cited research in the world. They join CSHL Professor Michael Wigler, who is listed as one of the most extensively cited researchers of all time. The annual Highly Cited Researchers list...

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Researchers double sorghum grain number to improve food supply

Charlotte Hu — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:35:31 +0000

Plant scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their search for solutions to global food production challenges, have doubled the amount of grains that a sorghum plant can produce. Sorghum, one of the world’s most important sources of food, animal feed, and biofuel, is considered a model crop...

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Leading discovery

Communications Department — Mon, 20 May 2019 13:00:09 +0000

This spring, I was pleasantly surprised by the news that I would be honored with the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award, together with John Diffley, for our research on eukaryotic cell DNA replication. The Gairdner Foundation’s announcement describes our work: By describing the exact sequence of events involved in DNA replication, Stillman and Diffley have...

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An essay from the President: Biology for the planet

Communications Department — Thu, 16 May 2019 16:17:34 +0000

As we advance toward the middle of the twenty-first century, humanity faces an existential challenge: figuring out how to feed the world’s rapidly growing population in the face of climate change and the increasingly limited availability of key nutrients and suitable land for farming. We need solutions that are local, national and global to increase...

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Profile: Doreen Ware champions the plant genome

Daniel Dunaief — Wed, 08 May 2019 18:00:58 +0000

Plants can’t run away from predators or adapt their behaviors at a moment’s notice. Instead, they adapt, survive, and thrive through changes to their genes, where the tools to battle viruses, fungi, infection, or adverse environmental conditions reside. The plant genome, champion of its own survival, has been the focus of Doreen Ware’s career. An...

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Congressman Suozzi congratulates CSHL Partner for the Future

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:18:32 +0000

On March 4, Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York’s third congressional district visited ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) to congratulate several high school students from the district who have been named as Regeneron finalists and scholars. Among the recipients was Pragati Muthukumar, a senior at Commack High School and a CSHL Partner for the Future....

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New regulators of nitrogen use in plants identified

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:00:36 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Nitrogen is vital for all plants: it is an essential building block for all of their proteins, and required for the metabolic processes they need to survive. Fertilizers that contain nitrogen are used to support plant growth and boost crop yields, but excess nitrogen that is not taken up by...

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The secret to tripling the number of grains in sorghum and perhaps other staple crops

Jennifer Michalowski — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:00:32 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A simple genetic modification can triple the grain number of sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food, animal feed, and biofuel in many parts of the world. In new research reported today in Nature Communications, scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have figured out how...

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More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing population

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:27:13 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Billions of people around the world rely on rice as a mainstay of their diet. The grain provides about 20 percent of the calories consumed by humans worldwide. Rice production is critical for global food security, and demand will only grow as the world’s population expands by an estimated 2-3...

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The changing relationship between humans and plants, it’s complicated

Public Affairs Administrator — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:22:04 +0000

CSHL plant scientists Dave Jackson, Doreen Ware, and Zach Lippman give their perspectives on the rapidly changing relationship between humans and plants at a free public lecture.

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Detailed new ‘reference’ genome for maize shows the plant has deep resources for continued adaptation

Peter Tarr — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:00:49 +0000

‘Phenotypic plasticity’ traced to maize’s regulatory flexibility bodes well for expanding the staple’s growing range as the planet warms Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A new, much more detailed reference genome for maize, or corn, as it is called in the U.S., will be published in Nature today. In its accounting of the sequence of DNA letters in...

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“Amazing protein diversity” is discovered in the maize plant

Peter Tarr — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The genome of the corn plant—or maize, as it’s called almost everywhere except the US—“is a lot more exciting” than scientists have previously believed. So says the lead scientist in a new effort to analyze and annotate the depth of the plant’s genetic resources. “Our new research establishes the amazing...

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The iPlant Collaborative is now called CyVerse

Communications Department — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:03:00 +0000

™" data-description="" />The enhanced NSF project will now provide data management and computation across scientific disciplines Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The iPlant Collaborative is now called CyVerse. The advanced data management platform for the life sciences, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced the change on January 8th. The collaborative includes the University of Arizona,...

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