"I think we, as a society, at least here in high-income countries, really take for granted that we have food security, and I don't think we should be so blasé."

Meet Keith Duncan, the Danforth Center's Director of X-Ray Imaging, and his father Dr. Howard Duncan, a pioneering medical researcher. Two generations, one shared passion for seeing the hidden world a...

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Getu Beyene Duguma, PhD, is a Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Learn more about Getu's research.

A conversation with curator Nezka Pfeifer on scent in museums and the challenges and rewards of olfactory storytelling.

(2026) Wed 11 Feb - Fri 13 [EST]: The eBERlight group at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a synchrotron facility at Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL, USA), is hosting the 2nd eBERlight 101…

Ralstonia causes wilt diseases by colonizing xylem vessels and disrupting water transport. The dogma is that bacterial biomass clogs vessels and reduces the flow of xylem sap due to Ralstonia abundanc...

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Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...

Giles Oldroyd, PhD, is the President at the Danforth Center. Learn more about his plant science research. For Danforth Center President Giles Oldroyd, curiosity about plants was a seed planted at a very young age. He picked up his love of flora from his grandfather, who was both an avid gardener and amateur botanist. He still recalls many happy times accompanying him in the garden or on walks in the Yorkshire, UK, landscape, where he learned to identify countless plants they encountered toget...