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Author: Johanna Murray
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PMN at Glencairn Science Night
This week, PMN Director Charles Hawkins led one of our favorite activities at Glencairn Elementary’s Science Night! Students explored how metabolism creates the pleasant aromas of bananas & other fruits, discovering through a hands-on activity how plant metabolism is what gives these fruits their signature scents.
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New CURE Course Offered at UC David Led by PMN Member Philipp Zerbe
The new CURE course at UC Davis, led by PMN member Philipp Zerbe, is helping students to create an interactive chemical map of Arboretum plants. Read about it here: https://biology.ucdavis.edu/news/whats-leaf-students-map-chemistry-campus-plants Photo: Katrina Huynh – UC Davis
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New Publication: “Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases”
A new paper by PMN members Hiroshi A. Maeda, Sueng Y. Rhee, Charles Hawkins, and Marcos V. V. de Oliveira, was recently published in Nature Plants. Titled “Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases,” this paper lays the groundwork for engineering crops that use nitrogen more efficiently, reducing our dependence on harmful fertilizers. It also helps scientists better predict and model plant…