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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

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MSU to Host Inaugural Great Lakes Plant Science Conference

Register for the first Great Lakes Plant Science Conference (GLPSC 2025), a collaborative conference to explore the future of plant science, taking place September 12-14, 2025 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.
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Hatem Rouached in his lab

Decoding Plant Phosphorus Nutrition

The world is running out of phosphorus. No phosphorus? No food. But MSU Plant Resilience Institute researcher Hatem Rouached and his team are finding ways to help plants thrive where phosphorus isn’t present.
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Rouached Honored with 2025 CANR Established Mid-Career Researcher Award

Dr. Hatem Rouached, assistant professor in the MSU Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences and the Plant Resilience Institute, is the recipient of a 2025 CANR Established Mid-Career Researcher Award.
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