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Rhee Lab Press Releases
- Scientists found the most heat-tolerant plant on Earth hiding in plain sight (January 2026)
- The ‘Hell-Plant’ of Death Valley offers hope to a hotter world (December 2025)
- Death Valley plant reveals blueprint for heat-resilient crops (November 2025)
- Scientists make groundbreaking find in California’s Death Valley National Park (November 2025)
- A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat (November 2025)
- Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Death Valley Plant Provides Insights for Engineering Heat-Resilient Crops (November 2025)
- DIY lab tool evaluates new molecules in minutes (June 2024)
- Helping plants grow as phosphorus levels in soils deplete (March 2023)
- How Do Plants Know How Big To Grow? (June 2022)
- Elucidating Plants’ Survival Skills Could Save Humanity in a Changing Climate (February 2022)
- New Understanding Of Plant Nutrient Response Could Improve Fertilizer Management Strategies (December, 2021)
- How Do Plants Act Fast to Fight Off Infection? (October, 2021)
- The future is plant-based. But how do we get there? (September, 2021)
- How seeds know it’s a good time to germinate (July, 2021)
- Do plant cells hold the roadmap for surviving climate change? (July, 2019)
- Worms help Carnegie and Stanford biologists investigate how plant-derived neurological drugs work (January, 2019)
- Communicating with the world across the border (May, 2014)
- Decoding the chemical vocabulary of plants (May, 2014)
- Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association (February, 2010)
Rhee Lab News Articles
- MSU’s new Plant and Environmental Sciences building construction underway (November 2025)
- Seeds of hope (October 2025)
- Humans of Banbury: Interview with Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee (April 2024)
- Knight-Hennessy Scholars announces 2023 cohort of new scholars, its largest ever (May 2023)
- Carnegie’s Sue Rhee Will Transition To Michigan State University Next Year To Head Up A Plant Resilience Institute (November 2022)
- New NSF-Funded Institute Will Probe Biology in the Absence of Water (August 2022)
- Plant Cell Atlas Is Inspiring The Next Generation (May 2022)
- Contributions of Black plant scientists highlighted in area HBCU art exhibits (September, 2021)
- Can we harness a plant’s ability to synthesize medicinal compounds? (November, 2020)
- DOE awards biofuel research team including Carnegie plant biologists (August, 2020)
- Carnegie postdoc wins fellowship to study plants’ adaptation to climate change (June, 2021)
- Carnegie-led initiative receives major DOE biofuels research grant (August, 2019)
- Two New Venture Grants Awarded (May, 2019)
- Venture Grant Awarded to Dionysis Foustoukos and Sue Rhee (September, 2018)
- $16M DOE grant will enhance sorghum bioenergy (October, 2017)
- Leading Plant Database Goes Subscription (September, 2013)
- Have you had your cereal today? (June, 2013)
- New Databases Harvest a Rich Bounty of Information on Crop Plant Metabolism (March, 2012)
- Future of Biology Rests in Harnessing Data Avalanche (September, 2008)
- New Web Resource to Improve Crop Engineering (June, 2008)
- Controlling a Sea of Information (March, 2008)