Surviving the Elements: A New Understanding of Plant Stress Responses

Surviving the Elements: A New Understanding of Plant Stress Responses

A team of scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences have carried out research into how plants react to stressful conditions and devised a computational method that allows scientists to predict how plants will respond to complex environmental stresses. Their paper discussing their research and new computational method was recently accepted into the prestigious scientific journal, Nature Communications.

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Oldenlandia corymbosa – a common plant valuable in the fight against cancer

Oldenlandia corymbosa – a common plant valuable in the fight against cancer

A team of scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences (SBS), led by Associate Professor Marek Mutwil, have shown that ursolic acid present in extracts from O. corymbosa is active against breast cancer cells. In a paper published in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, the team also succeeded in assembling a high-quality genome of O. corymbosa, and uncovered two genes involved in the biosynthesis of ursolic acid – thus paving the way for developing this valuable compound.

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Why Science@NTU? – Meet Carmen Tong!

Why Science@NTU? – Meet Carmen Tong!

Still pondering if you should accept that programme offer from NTU College of Science? We meet a few CoS students who share their exciting and fulfilling experience studying Science@NTU! Next up, we have Carmen Tong from the School of Biological Sciences, who’s also an NTU Science Scholar!

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