John McDonnell’s business and philanthropic roots in St. Louis run deep. He had a decades-long career at the St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corporation and retired as chairman of the board in the late 1990s. His passion for giving back to the St. Louis community is evident through his involvement in many local nonprofits and institutions, such as the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. A lover of nature and adventure, he has also generously supported WWF for many years.
You’re an adventure traveler and enjoy spending time in the great outdoors. When and how did that start?
I grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis and spent a lot of time outside. But what really got me hooked on nature was a trip to a summer canoeing camp in Ontario, Canada, when I was 11. We would go out on canoe trips for three to 10 days, and I loved camping and experiencing the unexpected in nature. Once I was able to travel on my own, I went wilderness canoeing and camping, primarily in Quetico Provincial
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This shocking finding has now been confirmed by an independent research team from Harvard University. The draft genome for another member of the Rafflesiaceae family that they recently published in
Current Biology is full of surprises, showing how far parasites can go in shedding superfluous genes and acquiring useful new ones from their hosts. It also deepens mysteries about the role of highly mobile genetic elements that donât encode proteins in enabling evolutionary changes. Perhaps the greatest lesson of the study is how much we still have to learn about genomics, particularly in plants, and in parasites â a category of organisms that includes more than 40% of all known species.
Marty Rochesterâs March 24 opinion piece, âOy vey: The excesses of identity politics,â cries out for rebuttal on a number of fronts. Since Iâm having trouble deciding whether I am, in Rochesterâs words, a âgarden-variety liberalâ or a âleft-wing extremist,â Iâll let other more astute readers…
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. and REHOVOT, Israel, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Plastomics, Inc., an agricultural biotech company, developing a step change in trait delivery technology, and Evogene Ltd. s, (NASDAQ:EVGN) (TASE: EVGN), Ag-Seed division, focusing on discovery and development of seed traits, announced today a collaboration agreement targeting novel insect control traits for soybean.
As part of the collaboration, Plastomics, utilizing its disruptive new technology, will introduce Evogene s insect control genes demonstrating new modes of action (MoAs) into soybeans. These genes, which were discovered using Evogene s GeneRator AI engine, have demonstrated insecticidal activity in different assays to controlling insect colonies that are resistant and susceptible to current commercial insect solutions. a significant challenge to soybean growers.
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