Danforth Plant Science Center

Sokesman: Rob Rose

Home Page: http://www.danforthcenter.org/ Email: info@danforthcenter.org Telephone: (314) 587-1000

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the product of a unique and innovative partnership joining the Missouri Botanical Garden, Monsanto Company, Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Washington University in St. Louis, with additional support from the St. Louis-based Danforth Foundation and the State of Missouri. The not-for-profit Danforth Center is fully independent, .a resource for all who are devoted to discovery and all who are committed to making available the critically needed knowledge of plant science that will sustain our planet for generations to come.

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'Tribute to a man, a family and a foundation' Campus name to honor Danforths Feb. 23, 2006 -- In recognition of the role that William H. (Bill) Danforth, life trustee and chancellor emeritus, his family and the Danforth Foundation have played in the evolution of Washington University in St. Louis, the Hilltop Campus will be renamed the Danforth Campus, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. An official recognition ceremony will be held Sept. 17, when the new name takes effect.

Eat your broccoli Researchers pave way for higher levels of folate Aug. 5, 2004 -- WUSTL researchers are investigating how to infuse grains with folate typically found in green vegetables such as broccoli. A team of researchers led by Karel Schubert, Ph.D., affiliate research biology professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, recently achieved a breakthrough to enhance levels of folate, a vitamin essential to human and animal health, in the model plant Arabidopsis.

Top honors Four elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2004 -- Carl Frieden, Jeffrey I. Gordon, John F. McDonnell and Carl Phillips can now stand proudly beside Ben Franklin, George Washington, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Those four from Washington University in St. Louis have joined those four from history as being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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WUSTL to study corn's genetic code CBS News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 42 others Nov. 16, 2005 -- WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center researchers will lead a project to decipher the genetic code of corn, which they say should provide the knowledge leading to better corn yields. Lead investigator Richard Wilson comments.

Popularity of plant is affecting its evolution, study finds Associated Press and The New York Times July 5, 2005 -- Over the past 100 years, a species of Himalayan snow lotus has lost almost four inches in height. Missouri Botanical Garden scientist Jan Salick and WUSTL biology graduate student Wayne Law say direct and rapid evolutionary change is a result of human actions. Medicinal collectors pick the tallest plants because they are considered more potent, and for tourists, no doubt the larger the flower the better. The entire plant is picked just as it is flowering and before it releases seeds.

St. Louis waits for Bio-Belt to bloom Chicago Tribune and 12 others May 2, 2005 -- Article on the outlook for bioscience hotspots focuses on St. Louis. For years this fading industrial center has poured a fortune into the genetic engineering of plants, ignoring critics of the controversial technology and enduring a long stretch with little to show for its investment. Now, finally, St. Louis is starting to see a payoff, putting some welcome distance between itself and the many other cities trying to hit it big in biotech. Comments from John Biggs, Roger Beachy, Peter Raven, and WUSTL chancellor Mark Wrighton.