The rights granted by the WSU Research Foundation under the this commercial license are related to pioneering discoveries made by Rodney Croteau, a fellow in WSU's Institute of Biological Chemistry and a
scientist in the Agricultural Research Center.
The project — a partnership between an Ithaca - based hub of researchers at The Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell and the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and other hubs
in agricultural research centers in Mexico, India and Philippines — is making state - of - the - art genomic breeding techniques available to everyone.
In fact, several of the food waste reduction efforts and ideas come directly from our employees who have hands - on experience cultivating and processing
food in our agricultural research, agricultural field, operations, and research & development teams.
Private agricultural research reached $ 10 billion, but the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research — the premier network of research institutions
specializing in agricultural research for developing countries — could not raise $ 400 million.
OVERTON — Dr. Charles Long, director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton, was recently awarded the 2017 Build East Texas Award for
excellence in agricultural research and extension.
Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency's «chief scientist» and be chosen «from among distinguished scientists with specialized or significant
experience in agricultural research, education, and economics.»
Oladoyinbo, a fellow of the African
Women in Agricultural Research and Development, stated this at a role - modelling programme she organised at the Federal College of Education Model Secondary School, Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
«This is a very exciting moment for
us in agricultural research,» says Molly Jahn of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an author of the PCAST report.
► This week's Science editorial, by former Science Editor - in - Chief Donald Kennedy, calls for a new commitment and substantial new investments
in agricultural research, with an eye toward supporting the estimated nine billion people expected to occupy Earth in 2050.
«Overall, China may want to consider a targeted investment
in agricultural research and development,» said lead author Carole Dalin, a Princeton University Ph.D. student studying environmental engineering.
They also include long - lagging levels of investment
in agricultural research.
Investing an additional $ US88bn
in agricultural research and development over the next 32 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percentage points every year, which could save 79 million people from hunger and prevent five million cases of child malnourishment.
The group calls, as others have in the past, for stepped - up investments
in agricultural research, but with specific ends in mind.