Plant Biology

Satyaki Rajavasireddy is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Mary Gehring’s lab investigating regulation of gene expression in plants. We sat down with Rajavasireddy to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.

Tomáš Pluskal is a postdoc in Whitehead Member Jing-Ke Weng’s lab investigating molecules of medicinal interest in plants and the genes that produce them. We sat down with Pluskal to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.

Whitehead researchers identify critical components of the scaffolding that supports and protects pollen production

Decades of pioneering plant research at Whitehead Institute have led to biological insights and useful discoveries

The detailed molecular structure of the inert plant material sporopollenin — key for the emergence of land plants — has been resolved

Differences in common traits within a plant species, such as seed size, can be determined by more than gene sequence.

A novel genomic approach helps identify medicinal compounds in plants.