GRIPPs Efforts to Conserve Plant Biodiversity Through Cryopreservation Featured by Guelph Mercury
Flash-freezing the buds of an endangered plant species could enable its future recovery
GRIPPs Cryobiology Program for Protecting Plant Biodiversity Featured by Globe and Mail
In a small, windowless room at the University of Guelph, Praveen Saxena peruses a shelf packed with little green shoots growing in pint-sized bottles of liquid nutrients
GRIPP Director Dr. Praveen Saxena Featured in Pictures by Globe and Mail
Dr. Praveen Saxena is the founder and director of GRIPP and manages the institute’s research activities. For over 20 years, his Plant Cell Technology Laboratory (PCTL) at the University of Guelph has focused on investigating the mechanisms which direct in
GRIPP Celebrates Grand Opening
The Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation (GRIPP) officially opened its doors yesterday afternoon. The GRIPP research centre at the University of Guelph hopes to become Canada’s leading facility in plant preservation
GRIPPs Research Program on American Elm and Devotion to Conserving Wildlife Featured by National Post
The elm was, for more than a century, was the tree of choice for many Canadian cities. When Dutch elm disease decimated tree canopies from the 1940s into the 1980s, the Canadian urban landscape was transformed.
GRIPPs Research on Dutch Elm Disease Featured by CBC
Scientists at the University of Guelph are cloning elm trees they believe are resistant to Dutch elm disease, a fungus that has devastated the North American elm tree population
GRIPPs Cloning Technologies Featured by Macleans Magazine
Since arriving in North America from Europe in 1930, Dutch elm disease has wiped out 95 per cent of this continent’s population of American elms, the immense and towering trees that, particularly in the U.S., once provided shady relief to
GRIPP Researchers Successfully Clone Dutch Elm Disease Resistant Elms
Scientists at the University of Guelph have found a way to successfully clone American elm trees that have survived repeated epidemics of their biggest killer -- Dutch elm disease. The breakthrough, published March 29 in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research,
New Institute to Protect, Preserve Threatened Plant Life Funded by Gosling Foundation
Developing innovative ways to protect and conserve the world’s endangered plants is the goal of a new institute being created at the University of Guelph. The Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation (GRIPP) will help prevent loss of plant diversity through
Gosling Foundation Supports Elm Research at Guelph
The American elm was once among the most beloved and recognizable of trees, a stately giant whose towering height and cathedral-like canopy of leaves made it a favourite to line city streets across North America. But the elms, which once numbered