<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/msus-jianping-hu-receives-nsf-grant-to-shed-light-on-plant-growth-reproduction.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>06/15/2022</pubDate><title> MSU's Jianping Hu receives NSF grant to shed light on plant growth, reproduction </title><description><span class="summary">Jianping Hu, professor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) and the Department of Plant Biology, received a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the motility of cellular energy organelles, peroxisomes and mitochondria in particular, along the cytoskeleton in <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em>.</span></description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/peroxisomesonactinbundles-cropped.png" alt="peroxisome movement along actin bundles in a tobacco epidermal cell."/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/hu_thumb.png" alt="peroxisome movement along actin bundles in a tobacco epidermal cell."/></image><tags><tag>faculty</tag></tags></item>