Danforth Center

@DanforthCenter

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center: A St. Louis based non-profit committed to Improving the Human Condition through Plant Science.

St. Louis, MO

Danforth Center
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Aug 20
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and @LancasterUni just landed a $4.9M grant from the @gatesfoundation to help cassava (a crop that feeds roughly 800 million people) hold up under extreme heat. The four-year project is called HeatSmart Cassava.
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Danforth Center
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Aug 11
3 things you'd already know about if you subscribed to On the Vine: Jackie Joyner-Kersee's new food and nutrition center, a scientist fighting for heat- and drought-resistant crops, and volunteer beekeepers restoring our prairie. Subscribe below so you're not the last to know.
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Danforth Center
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Aug 6
One of the smallest plants on Earth is doing some of the biggest work for the planet's carbon cycle: peatlands built by moss store nearly a third of the world's soil carbon, more than 2x what's held in all the world's forest biomass combined.
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Danforth Center
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Jul 28
Most of the world's vineyards grow on rootstock from wild grapevines native to North America. In the 1800s, these wild grapevines saved Europe's vineyards from a pest called phylloxera, and their rootstock is still used today. Now they need saving too.
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Danforth Center
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Jul 21
A single 2020 storm decimated 850,000 acres of corn in Iowa. Danforth Center PI Erin Sparks is tackling that problem underground: engineering corn with more flexible roots to resist wind damage. Featured in @Forbes: danforthcenter.org/news/erin-spar…