Want to get to know our new professor Charles Underwood? We interviewed him about his plans at @Radboud_uni :
"I want to address fundamental questions in reproduction biology, as a foundation for generating new biotechnologies useful in crop breeding."
https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/news/interview-with-charles-underwood-new-professor-of-plant-genome-engineering
#plantgenome #genomeengineering #biotechnology #cropbiotechnology #reproductionbiology #biology #tomatoes #apomixis
In November 2023, Charles Underwood started working at the Radboud Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences as a professor of Plant Genome Engineering. In this interview, you can read more about his research interests and plans.
#Rice #breeding breakthrough could feed billions.
#agriculture #apomixis #biotechnology #MiMe
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-rice-breakthrough-billions.html
An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, disease resistant rice strains available to low-income farmers worldwide. The work was published Dec. 27 in Nature Communications.
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