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Plants

Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances

Posted on September 18, 2018

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

Posted in NewsTagged Botany, Plants, Research, Simon Gilroy

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

Posted on February 21, 2018

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged Campus Planning, Facilities Planning & Management, Madison, MAMSWaP, Plant Dane, Plants, Water, Yahara

Harnessing the grid to illuminate crop growth

Posted on February 4, 2015
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Plants, Research, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

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