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New Associate Director at Arizona Genomics Institute

International group of researchers from the USA, UK, and the Philippines receives BBSRC-NSF funding to improve rice genome annotation.

Researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Arizona in the USA, University of Liverpool and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK, and CGIAR’s International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines were awarded a three-year international project funding by the joint panel of the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, UK).

Arizona Board of Regents Confirms Five New Regents' Professors at UA

The title Regents' Professor serves as recognition of the highest academic merit and is awarded to faculty members who have distinguished accomplishments in teaching scholarship, research or creative work.

Opening the doors to food security through genomics

The development of Green Super Rice, a new breed of stable, climate-smart, high-yielding varieties, opens up the potential of understanding and using genomics of agroecosystems in responding to the increasingly complex challenges the agricultural sector is facing today.

Rice Genomics: 'Editor's Pick' on the Springer Nature Grand Challenges

Harnessing the genetic variation in wild and cultivated rice populations will be key to developing Green Super Rice varieties with high yield and low environmental costs.

As Asians get rich and healthy, 'smart crops' replace rice on future menus

TAIPEI, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lunchtime in Taipei's Ximending district is a test of wills and patience as tourists and locals jostle at restaurants and street stalls to choose from steamed and fried dumplings, flat and thin noodles, stuffed pancakes, grills and desserts.

'Wild' genes open up opportunities for healthier, climate-smart rice

Los Baños, Philippines (30th January 2018) — The genome sequencing of seven wild rice varieties has finally been completed. This breakthrough is expected to provide opportunities for breeders worldwide in developing better rice varieties that will respond to the changing needs of the farmers and the consumers.

Dingo Genome Progress Presented at PAG

SAN DIEGO (GenomeWeb) – A University of New South Wales-led team has sequenced and assembled a desert dingo genome de novo in the hopes of untangling canine domestication in general, along with the dingo's own history in Australia.

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Endowed chair Rod Wing takes aim at world hunger

AGI co-authors a Science Advance article with Monica Schmid's and Peter Cotty's labs describing an innovative solution to eliminate aflatoxin contamination from crop plants

Monica Schmidt, a plant geneticist at the University of Arizona, has engineered a strain of corn that shuts off the ability of a plant fungus to produce aflatoxin, which can stunt childhood growth and cause liver disease.