Drought experts present at InterDrought III
Oct 20, 2009
Drs. Robert Sharp, Henry Nguyen, and Mel Oliver presented invited talks at InterDrought III, the Third International Conference on Integrated Approaches to Improve Crop Production under Drought-Prone Conditions, held in Shanghai, China, from October 11-16, 2009. 

IPG member appointed to head federal committee
Oct 20, 2009
Gary Stacey was appointed chair of the Department of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC)

MU Researchers Create Drought Conditions to Unearth Solutions
Aug 5, 2009
New drought simulators will allow plant scientists at MU to conduct a broad range of drought-related translational research.

Native Plant Society Honors MU Graduate Student
Jul 21, 2009
The 2009 Stanton Hudson Memorial Award from the Missouri Native Plant Society was awarded to Erica Wheeler, an IPG doctoral student in the Division of Biological Sciences.

Computers Aid in Cracking Deception in Plants
Jun 29, 2009
IPG member Dmitry Korkin recently received a five-year, $613,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to apply his computational research to the study of molecular mimicry in an important plant pathogen, the soybean cyst nematode.

Too Much of a Good Thing
May 29, 2009
Understanding plants’ overactive immune system will help IPG researchers build better crops

MU Plant Biologists Reap Major Awards for Research
Apr 10, 2009
Three IPG faculty receive awards from American Society of Plant Biologists. Gretchen Hagen and Tom Guilfoyle were awarded the ASPB's Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award. Melvin Oliver was awarded the Fellow of the ASPB Award.

James Birchler Named a Prestigious Curators' Professorship
Feb 17, 2009
James A. Birchler, an IPG professor in biological sciences, has been awarded one of the University of Missouri's most prestigious appointments, a Curators' Professorship.

“Green” Plastics Could Help Reduce Carbon Footprint
Feb 16, 2009
More than 20 million tons of plastic are placed in U.S. landfills each year. Results from a new study conducted by IPG researcher Brian Mooney and Douglas Randall suggest that some of the largely petroleum-based plastic may soon be replaced by a nonpolluting, renewable plastic made from plants.

In Race to Predict Protein Structure, Computers Take Lead
Jan 15, 2009
Two MU computer science teams, led by IPG members Jianlin Cheng and Dong Xu, ranked among best in world in protein structure prediction at the CASP8 competition.