Sentences with phrase «head of the plant breeding»
«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.
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It all started in 2003 when Dr. Wing and Dr. Scott Jackson, a professor, GRE Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia, initiated a collaboration with Dr. Darshan Brar, former IRRI plant breeder and Head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Division during a visit to IRRI headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines.
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«Rice is an incredibly special crop providing more than half of the planet with food every day,» said Dr. Eero Nissilä, head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division and convenor of RG7.
Dr. Darshan Brar, former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Unit and 2007 CGIAR Outstanding Scientist, describes IRRI's historical rice varieties and their impact.
Eero is the former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division (PBGB) and was the global leader for GRiSP Theme 2.
Increasingly affordable with improved technology, molecular breeding is becoming the mode of business in the crop world, said Bonnie McClafferty, development head at HarvestPlus, a nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports molecular breeding research into improving plant nutrition in Africa and Asia.
Dr. Darshan Brar, former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Unit and 2007 CGIAR Outstanding Scientist, describes IRRI's historical rice varieties and their impact.
Eero is the former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division (PBGB) and was the global leader for GRiSP Theme 2.