GS is on vacation next week – see you the week of Aug 6! Researchers JAZ(zed) about plant resistance discovery – Researchers at Michigan State University and Washington State University have discovered how a major plant hormone, jasmonate, affects the ability of plants to stave off a pathogen...

Hello, it’s your plants calling... The phone rings. Who can it be now? The babysitter? The office? No, it’s your Scotch Moss plant. He’d like to be watered, please. Graduate students at New York University are working on a telecommunications product that monitors soil moisture in house...

Dr. Norman Borlaug receives Congressional Gold Medal - Plant breeder Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his study of high-yield crops. His work led to the Green Revolution, which describes the significant increase in crop yields in the 1940s-1960s that fed millions around the world....

McDonald’s puts oil to green use – The golden arches announced last week that they are converting all their trucks in the U.K. to run on biodiesel, the source of which will be McDonald’s used cooking (vegetable and rapeseed) oil. Investors are quite pleased as the smell of McDonald’s...