Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

After two decades of building, the region’s agricultural technology cluster is poised to take off. A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit suggests it already…

This story was updated at 3:10 p.m. — The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has dismissed one of its researchers on suspicion of sexual misconduct.The…

Over the past few years the world is producing 17 percent more food, yet one billion people go hungry.That’s a conundrum that is the focus of a panel…

Researchers Liz Haswell and Ivan Baxter spend most their time trying to understand how plants function. But the two plant scientists sometimes step away…

To prove that a new-gene editing technology could be used to alter the cassava plant, scientists in the St. Louis suburbs zeroed in on a gene used to…

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.4 million to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of…

The public can hear more about plans for 39 North, the 600-acre plant science innovation district in Creve Coeur, on Thursday night.The Danforth Center is…

A $6.1 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund the Danforth Plant Science Center's research on sorghum, a staple food crop in…

Researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center say a $10.45 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will allow them to expand a…

Researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are working on a device that they hope to eventually sell to farmers.The PheNode can monitor a…