Joanne Chory (1955 to 2024) was an American plant biologist and geneticist who served as a professor and director at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She used molecular genetics to study how plants sense and respond to their environment, including work on plant hormone biology, retrograde signaling and photobiology that explained how plants optimize photosynthesis under changing conditions. She founded the Salk Institute's Harnessing Plants Initiative, which aims to help address climate change by breeding plants that capture and store more carbon dioxide in their roots through a substance called suberin, and she received the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences among many other honors.
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Defining ContributionPioneered the use of molecular genetics to show how plants use steroid hormones and light-sensing pathways to control seedling development, shaping how they change size and form to optimize photosynthesis and growth in different environments. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Joanne Chory (March 19, 1955, November 12, 2024) was an American plant biologist and geneticist.
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Chory's work at the Salk Institute, which she joined in 1988, pioneered the use of molecular genetics to study how plants change their shape and size to optimize photosynthesis and growth for different environments.
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