🧪 Scientists once considered intrinsically disordered proteins "sort of junk," says A&S biologist Heather Meyer.
With a new five-year NIH grant, she's studying how these flexible proteins may help plants remember winter's cold before they flower.
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How Plants Remember
Syracuse University biologist Heather Meyer has been awarded an NIH grant to study the protein-based mechanisms organisms use to detect environmental changes and remember them.