Dr. Argelia Lorence, Plant Metabolic Engineering, advised graduate student Katherine Lisko of Stuttgart, Ark., who recently accepted the $1,000 IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Student Travel award in Washington, D.C. Lisko won for her work, co-authored with R. Shea Harris, graduate student in Environmental Science, and Dr. Lorence. Lisko's award-winning paper, "Elevated Vitamin C Enhances Growth, Stress Tolerance, and Phytoremediation Potential in Arabidopsis," was based on research performed in Dr. Lorence's laboratory at ABI. Dr. Lorence engineered plant lines used in the research--lines of the model plant Arabidopsis were engineered to have elevated levels of vitamin C. Dr. Lorence obtained funding for the project through a sub-award from the National Institutes of Health. For details, see the NewsPage release.