- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: January 13, 2011
Roger Beachy, the director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, was at UC Davis yesterday to announce grants for agricultural research amounting to $40 million, calling them "significant investments," said a UC Davis news release.
Together with UC Davis officials, Beachy announced that:
- Wheat geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky will receive $25 million to develop new varieties of wheat and barley. Dubcovsky and his 55 university and USDA colleagues will focus on biological and environmental stresses to wheat that are caused, at least in part, by global climate...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: October 21, 2009
The economy is floundering, but federal money is still flowing. Last week, the U.S. Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack, announced $7 million in grants for research on the biology of plant processes and traits which can be used to breed crops with greater value and resilience to climate stress, according to a USDA press release.
The release said $448,000 of the funds go to UC Davis, where scientists will use the money to better understand plant biology "from the genome to the field."
The "genome" refers to all of the hereditary information encoded in DNA. The phrase "genetic makeup" is sometimes used to mean the genome of a particular...
The release said $448,000 of the funds go to UC Davis, where scientists will use the money to better understand plant biology "from the genome to the field."
The "genome" refers to all of the hereditary information encoded in DNA. The phrase "genetic makeup" is sometimes used to mean the genome of a particular...
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