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Mission

The mission of the Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) is to enhance plant resilience to environmental challenges including extremes in weather and to become a “Center of Excellence” for foundational and translational plant research aimed at stabilizing the productivity and quality of food and energy crops against climate fluctuations and uncertainties.

Purpose

Climate instability threatens agricultural productivity. Stabilizing crop production will require the development of crops that are more resistant to abiotic and biotic stresses including drought, high temperature, flooding, disease (bacterial, fungal, viral) and insect pests.

People

The PRI includes faculty, postdocs, students, and staff from diverse career stages and disciplines (biochemistry, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microbiology, and pathology), with expertise in both model and crop species, drought and heat adaptation, plant-microbe and plant-insect interactions, microbial ecology, and genomics.

News

A graphic promoting GLPSC 2025

MSU to Host Inaugural Great Lakes Plant Science Conference

Register for GLPSC 2025, a collaborative conference to explore the future of plant science, taking place September 12-14, 2025 in Lansing, Michigan. Travel grant applications and abstract submissions are due by April 30, 2025.
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Dr. Rose Marks and field assistant Yandisa Ndzeku sample resurrection grasses at the Free State National Botanical Garden in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

New Paper Explores the Secrets of Surviving Without Water

Dr. Rose Marks, former postdoc in the VanBuren lab, brought together a team of 39 researchers from across the globe to outline a comprehensive roadmap for advancing research on desiccation tolerance.
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A presenter at the Plant Metabolic Network booth speaks to a family at SciFest

MSU Plant Science Community Showcases 'The World of Plants' at STEAM Expo Days

Plant scientists from labs and research groups across MSU will present, 'The World of Plants,' a showcase featuring 17 unique booths, at the 2025 SciFest STEAM Expo Days.
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