Center for Molecular Agriculture

Joanne Chory

Professor and Director
Plant Biology Laboratory,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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chory@salk.edu
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Dr. Chory received her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1984 from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).  After postdoctoral work with Fred Ausubel at Harvard Medical School, she joined the Salk Institute Faculty in 1988.  In 1994, she received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research and in 1995, the American Society of Plant Physiologists' Charles Albert Schull Award.  She has served on federal advisory panels for the NSF, DOE, and NIH, and on the editorial boards of several journals, including Cell, Science, Genetics, Developmental Genetics, and Plant Physiology.  In 1998, Dr. Chory was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1999, she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Research Foci: Light regulation of Development, Brassinosteroid Signaling, Nucleus-Chloroplast Interactions, Natural Variation

Much of the work in the Chory laboratory focuses on signal transduction pathways that regulate plant development.  The broader impact of this work is in the potential for increasing plant biomass and yield.

Technologies developed in the Chory laboratory:

  • Genes that control plant stature by alterations in brassinosteroid levels. 
  • Genes that encode the brassinosteroid receptor. 
  • Chimeric receptors for disease resistance and ligand discovery.

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