Our heat-tolerant rice gene is published in Nature Plants
Priya’s gene keeps rice flowering through a heatwave. Congratulations to everyone involved!
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Papers, prizes, new arrivals and life in the lab.
Welcome, Jonah and Ana!
Two new members join the lab this semester: Jonah Brooks (PhD) and Ana Souza (MSc).
Ananya Rao receives the Swarnajayanti Fellowship
The fellowship supports five years of work on crops for a warming world.
The harvest of our tenth field season
Daniel and Mei led the harvest of 4,000 plots with our partner farmers.
Ana wins Best Poster at the International Plant Biology Congress
Her poster on imaging roots with radar was chosen from more than 300 entries.
We released ten seasons of field data
Every measurement, photo and genotype is free on Zenodo and GitHub.
Dr. Aisha Bello defends her thesis
Aisha’s thesis on salt tolerance in rice was passed without corrections.
Lab retreat in the Western Ghats
Three days of talks, hikes and monsoon rain.