2017 – Founding director of Harnessing Plants Initiative, a carbon dioxide removal approach to fight climate change.

* Chory has identified hormones that dictate the shapes & sizes of plants * Is developing the science to create plants with more of a natural polymer called suberin in their roots because it works as a stable carbon storage device * Research on a carbon dioxide removal approach to fight climate change by optimizing a plant's natural ability to capture and store carbon dioxide and adapt to different climate conditions.

Compositions, cells & plants that include BK11, a negative regulator or BR11-mediated BR signaling; Modulation of flowering time by the PFT1 Locus; Genetically modified plants having modulated brassinosteroid signaling; Genes involved in brassinosteroid hormone action in plants; DAS5, a P450 protein involved in the brassinosteroid biosynthesis pathway in plants; Receptor kinase BIN1; Plant kinases & methods of modulation of their activity in plants; Expression of flavin-containing monoxygenases in plants; Plant steroid 5alpha-reductase, DET2

Category:
Botany

Completion Status:
done

Patent Number:
8008542; 7632984; 7034205; 6921848; 6768043; 6765085; 66326969; 6534313; 6455760; 6352846; 6245969; 6143950

Co-Inventor:
Xuelu Wang; Pablo Cerdan; Michael M. Neff; Zhiyong Wang; Jianming Li; Susan K. Christensen; Detlef Weigel; Yunde Zhao; Christian Fankhauser; John Cashman;