Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

See schedule oplant Science research, educational outreach and training:in 2022, we established a new 140-acre Danforth Center field research site in st. charles county. This is already providing a unique resource to extend research out of the lab and into a flexible field setting. We also started seeing results and positive outcomes from recent strategic initiatives, like the subterranean influences on nitrogen and carbon (sinc) Center to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture, and the Danforth Center start-up initiative. We are witnessing big leaps forward in our mission to feed the world and heal the planet: improved cowpea approved in ghana, the first-ever harvest of enriched rice in the philippines, the identification of key microbes that contribute to drought-tolerance, and new strides in bioenergy research. We also welcomed armando bravo as a new assistant member and principal investigator. Armando has initiated an interesting program to understand how beneficial microbes within plants function and evolve.