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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
PRI Is Hiring: Executive Secretary II
The Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University is looking for an Executive
Secretary II who will support the PRI Director and Associate Director to manage the
planning and administrative operation of the institute.
PRI Is Hiring: Faculty Positions Open Now
The Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University has openings for multiple new faculty positions at a tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level from individuals using innovative laboratory, computational, or field experimental approaches to study plant responses to the environment.
Plants’ secret to surviving shorter days
New research from MSU shows how plants have adapted to deal with losing daylight.