Roots Content / Roots Content for ٺƵ en Plant Biologist Siobhan Brady Named HHMI Investigator /news/plant-biologist-siobhan-brady-named-hhmi-investigator <p>Siobhan Brady, a professor in the <a href="https://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/">Department of Plant Biology</a> and <a href="https://genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/">Genome Center</a> at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as a <a href="https://www.hhmi.org/programs/investigators">Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator</a>. The prestigious Investigator program, which Brady describes as “life changing,” will provide her with roughly $9 million in research support over a seven-year term, with the option to renew.</p> July 23, 2024 - 12:11pm Andy Fell /news/plant-biologist-siobhan-brady-named-hhmi-investigator Drought Changes Root Microbiome /curiosity/blog/drought-changes-root-microbiome <p>Drought can have a lasting impact on the community of microbes that live in and around roots of rice plants, a team led by ٺƵ researchers has found. Root-associated microbes help plants take up nutrients from the soil, so the finding could help in understanding how rice responds to dry spells and how it can be made more resilient to drought. The work is published July 22 in&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00967-1"><em>Nature Plants</em></a>.</p> July 22, 2021 - 8:01am Andy Fell /curiosity/blog/drought-changes-root-microbiome Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought /food/news/discovery-increases-likelihood-growing-food-despite-drought <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> May 18, 2021 - 8:35am Andy Fell /food/news/discovery-increases-likelihood-growing-food-despite-drought Gene Network Lets Plant Roots Handle Nitrogen /news/gene-network-lets-plant-roots-handle-nitrogen <p>With robotics, computers and advanced genetics, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have established a core set of genes that help plants metabolize nitrogen, the key to plant growth and crop yield. They published their findings Oct. 24 in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0656-3"><em>Nature</em></a>.&nbsp;</p> October 24, 2018 - 9:45am Andy Fell /news/gene-network-lets-plant-roots-handle-nitrogen Plant Scientist Named as Hughes Scholar /news/plant-scientist-named-hughes-scholar <p>The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Siobhan Brady, a plant scientist at ٺƵ, among the 2016 class of HHMI Faculty Scholars.&nbsp;The award will support Brady’s research on gene networks that regulate growth of plant roots for the next five years.</p> September 22, 2016 - 4:32pm Andy Fell /news/plant-scientist-named-hughes-scholar