Francisco Gonzalez, a Ph.D. researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was stationed at Washington State University’s Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, has been fired by […]
These programs really are the seed corn. Not just because of the scientists they foster (my first 'science' job was working at one of the USDA greenhouses at WSU).
The research is critical for agricultural innovation. The team I worked with propagated legume seeds from all over the world to maintain a seed bank of gene diversity, these seed banks are the raw materials needed to make new crop varieties.
Just checked, the entire team is wiped out, no employees listed--just one WSU faculty member associated with the unit.
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