<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/2025-08-undergrads-participate-in-summer-research-fueling-future-bioeconomy.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><categories>Climate and Sustainability,Plant Sciences,Student Success</categories><broadcast>bmb,mps,plantbiology,prl,plantresilience</broadcast><articlePreview/><pubDate>08/08/2025</pubDate><title>Undergrads participate in summer research, fueling future bioeconomy </title><subTitle>The program takes these early-career scientists and immerses them in faculty-mentored research, focused on the genomics of plants and photosynthetic microbes.</subTitle><description>Undergraduate students are brought to MSU to research and study plants and photosynthetic microbes</description><highlights/><author>Patrick Edger</author><hero-image><img src="" alt=""/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2025/08-reu-students-square.jpg" alt="Two students work in a lab"/></image></item>