Researchers Create Largest Ever Map of Plant Proteins and Their Assemblies

April 2, 2020 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Their findings could have applications crop yields, disease and stress resistance in plants, and informing biofuel production.

Two flowering seedlings against a black background with line graphs above and below in green

A botanical illustration of a pear tree.

A botanical illustration symbolizing the fruits of deep biochemical fractionation and mass spectrometry across the plant tree of life to determine multiprotein complexes preserved over a billion years of green plant evolution. Original illustration by Sally Papoulas.

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