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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: plant genetics

A close-up of a hand holding several clusters of ripe red cherry tomatoes still attached to green stems, with leafy green foliage in the background.

Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines

7/9/2025

Why are some vines straight and others branched? CSHL’s answer could help scientists fine-tune plant breeding techniques and clinical therapeutics. Read the story »

At the Lab: Science for lovers

4/15/2025

You can’t spell evolution without l-o-v-e. A tale of passion and curiosity takes us from New York to Australia, France, the U.K., and South America. Listen to the podcast »

image of a pond with duckweed, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

The food and fuel that farms itself

4/1/2025

Duckweed can grow practically anywhere there’s sun and standing water. CSHL plant biologists identify the genes behind some of its most useful traits. Read the story »

CSHL and global collaborators map Solanum pan-genome

3/5/2025

Landmark study carves a path for plant breeders to improve crops across the globe and expand the variety of produce available in grocery stores. Read the story »

CRISPR manipulates plants’ flower powers

2/19/2025

CSHL Professor Zachary Lippman and postdoc Amy Lanctot have discovered how similar fragments of DNA control flowering in distantly related plants. Read the story »

image of a woman running through a corn field

No Two Plants

2/11/2025

CSHL postdoc’s experimental short film honors the legacy of Barbara McClintock, a continuing source of inspiration for women and girls in science. Read the story »

Corn’s ancient ancestors are calling

2/6/2025

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professors Thomas Gingeras and Rob Martienssen have launched a new genomic encyclopedia called MaizeCODE. Read the story »

Plants have a backup plan

10/3/2024

CSHL’s Rob Martienssen and his team discovered how plants like Arabidopsis continue to reproduce even when things go wrong in chromosome division. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 25: How maize became corn

9/24/2024

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory solves a plant biology mystery some 4,000 years in the making. The implications may go far beyond vegetables. Listen to the podcast »

image of the solanum atropurpureum thorny stem

One Experiment: The devil in the greenhouse

8/15/2024

CSHL’s meanest plant may help the Lippman lab tame prickly indigenous crops like Australia’s desert raisin. Read the story »

image of the pollen-producing part of the maize-teosinte hybrid

Corn’s ‘missing link’

8/7/2024

CSHL researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that may explain how corn spread so rapidly across the Americas 4,000 years ago. Read the story »

Photo of a rose at the New York Botanical Garden

Every rose has its thorns … or does it?

8/1/2024

CSHL biologists have found a way to remove prickles from plants genetically. Their discovery could change the way we think about evolution in general. Read the story »

31 people standing in three rows on the wood back patio of the Banbury Center's conference room. All meeting participants are wearing blue lanyards with name tags and are smiling.

Humans of Banbury: Interview with Cranos Williams

5/3/2024

An interview with October 2023's "The Future of Plant-Environment Interactions" meeting participant Cranos Williams, M.S., Ph.D. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 1: The tomato of tomorrow

4/2/2024

In the premiere episode of At the Lab, we visit CSHL Professor & HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman to glimpse the future of food and farming. Listen to the podcast »

image of Rob Martienssen overlaid on a DNA strand made from plant stems and leaves

From plant genomics to a bioscience revolution

3/25/2024

CSHL played a lead role in mapping the first plant genome. Today, that breakthrough fuels a whole new understanding of life on Earth. Read the story »

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