The bioinformatics company Illumina has donated a $1 million state-of the-art DNA sequencer to a global plant-breeding effort to fight malnutrition and poverty in Africa by improving the continent’s traditional crops. The UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy is partnering with the African Orphan Crop Consortium, which is working to map and make public the genomes…
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Plant scientists and wheat breeders now have a new tool to develop more nutritious and productive wheat varieties: A public online database of 10 million mutations in wheat genes. Scientists at UC Davis and three institutions in the UK created the database, which will allow scientists worldwide to study the function of every gene of…
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The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research has selected Amélie Gaudin, assistant professor of agroecology, as one of the nine inaugural recipients of the New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Award. They will receive a total of $4.8 million in research support over five years. Established by the U.S. Farm Bill of 2014, the nonprofit…
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The standard time to apply nitrogen on wheat is pre-plant, but new research from UC Cooperative Extension researchers Steve Orloff, Mark Lundy, Steve Wright and Bob Hutmacher has found evidence supporting different timing. Working on the third year of the study, they’ve looked at different N application rates and timings. They are also looking at…
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UC Davis is partnering in a global plant-breeding consortium fighting malnutrition and poverty in Africa by improving the continent’s traditional crops. The African Orphan Crop Consortium — conceived by Howard Shapiro, a senior fellow at UC Davis and the chief agricultural officer at Mars Inc. — is making great strides in its ambitious attempt to…
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By Julia Ann Easley, July 18, 2016 As the summer sun warmed her, student Hanna Morris stood up and surveyed row upon row of vegetables ripe for harvest near the UC Davis Student Farm. The spring plant sciences course on plant growth and care had ended, and this two-acre lab had been largely abandoned by…
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by Natalie Jacewicz, NPR Celery, the mild-mannered straight man of the vegetable world, packs a puny six calories per stalk and — in my opinion — about as much flavor as a desk lamp. Yet despite its limitations, the fibrous plant has featured in Mediterranean and East Asian civilizations for thousands of years. The paradox…
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Rice nutrition, salinity, and water management were all on Bruce Linquist’s mind as he addressed attendees at a recent field day in Glenn County. Deciding the right amount of phosphorus to apply and how to apply is important, said Linquist, who is assistant Cooperative Extension specialist and faculty member in the Department of Plant Sciences…
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By UC Davis News and Media Relations Quick Summary New gene for color accumulation discovered Earliest domestication confirmed in Central Asia and Middle East Findings could help improve carrots and related crops Sometimes, the evolutionary history of a species can be found in a fossil record. Other times, DNA and genetic fingerprints replace rocks and…
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UC Davis is partnering in a global plant-breeding consortium that is fighting malnutrition and poverty in Africa by improving the traditional crops of the continent. By Diane Nelson, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, February 24, 2016 UC Davis is partnering in a global plant-breeding consortium that is fighting malnutrition and poverty…
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