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Discovery could Improve Efficiency of Molecular Factories

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Health, Scienceaaas fellow, chloroplasts during cell division, clmp1 plays, discovery of clumped chloroplasts, envision more efficient molecular factories, green chloroplasts, katherine osteryoung, michigan state university, mutant arabidopsis thaliana plants, national academy of sciences, u.s. department of energy

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The discovery of a new gene is helping researchers at Michigan State University envision more-efficient molecular factories of the future.
A team of researchers, led by Katherine Osteryoung, MSU plant biologist, announced the discovery of Clumped Chloroplasts – a new class of proteins – in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. CLMP1 plays a key role in helping chloroplasts, which carry out the life-sustaining process of photosynthesis, separate when the chloroplasts divide. The newly identified proteins are also critical in the perpetuation of chloroplasts during cell division.
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Climate Change Affecting Food Safety

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Climate change is already having an effect on the safety of the world’s food supplies and unless action is taken it’s only going to get worse, a Michigan State University professor told a symposium at this year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ewen Todd, an MSU professor of advertising, public relations and retailing, organized a session titled “How Climate Change Affects the Safety of the World’s Food Supply” at which several nationally known experts warned that food safety is already an issue and will worsen unless climate change is confronted. (more…)

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Discovery could Improve Efficiency of Molecular Factories

Climate Change Affecting Food Safety