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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
April 11, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – Steve Matzner is the senior author of a paper published in the journal Plant, Cell and Environment.
Matzner is an assistant professor of biology at Augustana. The research concerns environmental stresses – like drought – on movement of water through the xylem conduction system in plants.
Collaborating authors are Megan Jerke, an Augustana senior from Sioux Falls majoring in biology, and Ellen Holste, a 2003 Augustana graduate from Humboldt, Iowa. Holste has served with the Peace Corps in Guatemala, and will begin a Ph.D. program in the fall.