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Can the World Feed 9 Billion People in 20 Years?

How can we feed the estimated 9 billion people who will be living on Earth within the next 20 years?

KeyGene licenses Whole Genome Profiling to AGI

The Arizona Genome Institute (AGI) and KeyGene announced that they have entered into a broad license agreement that will enable AGI to market and execute sequence-based physical mapping projects using KeyGene’s proprietary Whole Genome Profiling (WGPTM) method.

KeyGene, AGI Ink Deal Covering Whole Genome Profiling Technology

Agricultural genomics firm KeyGene and the Arizona Genome Institute today announced an agreement for the use of the Wageningen, Netherlands-based firm's Whole Genome Profiling method in sequencing-based physical mapping projects.

U.S. Scientist Develops New Rice Varieties for Hot, Dry Climate

A researcher working in the arid U.S. state of Arizona claims to have developed two strains of rice that can withstand hot and dry conditions after about seven years of research.

UA researcher developing drought-resistant crops

Despite the recent rainfall totals from monsoon storms the Southwest, and much of the country, is still battling the worst drought in decades. Here in Tucson, one University of Arizona researcher is developing strains of rice that can grow in these hot, dry conditions. It is a local project that could have a global impact.

100 days of science: UA corn-genetics work enabling quicker adaptations for vital crop

Researchers at the University of Arizona followed up their 2004 sequencing of the rice genome with work on the other important cereal crop - corn.

100 days of science: Gene researcher strives to create super-rice that will feed billions

Rod Wing, director of the Arizona Genomics Institute, said he likes to "surprise people" by telling them the University of Arizona is the largest producer of rice in the state.

UA Geneticists Help Make Tomato Genome an Open Book

An international consortium has deciphered the genetic code of the cultivated tomato and a wild relative.

The Arizona Genomics Institute participation at this weekend's Tucson Festival of Books

USA Rice Daily -- Arizona Researcher Pursuing Drought-Tolerant Rice Varieties

With much drier and warmer than average weather conditions affecting much of Texas for more than a year, news that a rice researcher at the University of Arizona is developing desert-friendly rice varieties for U.S. and international growers is likely to be well received.