Puebla chosen for Toluca Lake Garden Club’s Richard Duenckel Scholarship

Martin Puebla, a MSci. student working with CSUN Professor of Biology MariaElena Zavala, received the prestigious Richard Duenckel (Toluca Lake) Garden Club Scholarship. In his Master’s thesis project, Puebla aims to make bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) produce methionine, a sulfer-containing amino acid that beans normally lack.