Quick Summary UC Davis World Food Center to support scientific research that improves food systems ‘Food For Thought’ public events to highlight UC Davis research shaping the future of food World Food Center leaders planning future joint academic, business community events The University of California, Davis, has renewed its World Food Center within the College…
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Quick Summary Field tests have begun on high-yield, disease-resistant organic beans Hope is to have varieties available for commercial production after 2020 Researchers are breeding fast-growing plants to outcompete weeds Graduate students at the University of California, Davis, have begun field tests on very rare commodities: high-yield, disease-resistant bean varieties that can thrive on organic…
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As part of the Plant Breeding Center’s monthly field trip series, participants will visit the UC Davis Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility on Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 5 p.m. The group will meet in the lobby of the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility building (451 Health Science Drive, Davis, Calif.; this is on…
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement for Human and Animal Nutrition Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis The Department of Plant Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis, is recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement with an emphasis on improving the nutritional quality…
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This “Plant Breeding Media Tour” video features academic and industry breeders and seed producers. From UC Davis, Ph.D. students Kimberley Gibson (bean breeding) and Saarah Kuzey are featured, along with Professor Kent Bradford, director of the Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) at UC Davis, and Allen Van Deynze, research director of the SBC. Bradford addresses the…
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Although not all leaves in the canopy of a plant may be exposed to light at the same time, it is beneficial to coordinate the closure of the pores (stomata) in the leaves to prevent desiccation. Devireddy et al. showed in Arabidopsis thaliana plants that a wave of reactive oxygen species and Ca2+ enabled leaves…
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued a statement (March 28, 2018) providing clarification on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) oversight of plants produced through innovative new breeding techniques which include techniques called genome editing. Under its biotechnology regulations, USDA does not regulate or have any plans to regulate plants that could otherwise have…
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Plant Sciences faculty member and Cooperative Extension specialist Bruce Linquist received the Distinguished Rice Research and Education Award from the Rice Technical Working Group at their annual conference last month in Long Beach, California. Linquist chaired the conference. Linquist has been collaborating with rice researchers in the southern U.S., and he is the only California…
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New CAST issue paper, co-authored by Professor Kent Bradford at UC Davis, examines the current U.S. regulatory system for GE crops, compares it with those of major trading partners, and considers the effects it has on agricultural biotechnology. The authors of this paper demonstrate that the current process-based U.S. biotechnology regulatory system is a barrier…
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I might be just the kind of person the state’s founders envisioned when on March 23, 1868 – 150 years ago Friday – they chartered the University of California. A fourth-generation California rice grower, I was able to go to a world-class university and pursue an advanced degree, thanks to California’s system of public higher…
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