University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Plants

Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances

UW Madison’s Simon Gilroy has discovered that plant cells send out rather beautiful chemical signals when wounded. Read the full article here.

Native Plants, Community Participation, and UW Partnerships Help to Protect Our Watershed

UW-Madison has a special relationship to the lakes of the Yahara watershed. Situated on the shores of Lake Mendota, which constitutes one side of the iconic isthmus that defines the Madison cityscape, the university has long supported green initiatives that ensure that the Yahara watershed is clean and healthy. Stormwater runoff to the lakes is …

Harnessing the grid to illuminate crop growth