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Non-profit development of disease-resistant cassava for farmers in Africa

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:03:10 GMT

Dr. Claude M. Fauquet elaborates on how the not-for-profit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, is mixing science and technology to improve agricultural production of cassava to make a difference for millions of people in Africa.

FABI investigating the genome of a fungus causing the pitch canker disease

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:44:03 GMT

Interview with Dr. Martin Coetzee, Senior Lecturer, Department of Genetics and Researcher at Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and Dr. Arshad Ismail, GS Technology Platform Manager, Inqaba Biotec.

Investigating ancestral polyploidy in plants at Penn State

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:39:38 GMT

Interview with Dr. Claude dePamphilis, Professor of Biology at Penn State University.

ARC establishes South African bioinformatics network for agricultural research

Thu, 12 May 2011 07:37:18 GMT

Interview with Dr. Jasper Rees, Head of the Biotechnology Platform, Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa

In order to address their key strategic areas of improving food security, increasing crop productivity, Agricultural Research Council recently made two large investments.

The first in a complete High-Throughput Sequencing platform solution allowing them to incorporate both NGS and advanced genotyping technologies into a single instrument.

The second investment was made in the area of bioinformatics – hardware and software. The core of this investment sits with an enterprise platform enabling them to effiently distribute genomics tools and bioinformatics analysis throughout the ARC – spread accross nearly 2000 km of geographical space.

RNA-Seq milk cell transcriptome research at UC Davis

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:26:40 GMT

At present UC Davis are working on improving the content of oligosaccharides in bovine milk.
Working on an initiative referred to as the Foods for Health Institute, whose goal is to improve human health through food.

See Professor Juan F. Medrano, PhD from the Animal Genomics Laboratory, UC Davis elaborate on their exciting project.

Double haploid apple genome project in South Africa

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:27:52 GMT

Professor Jasper Rees and Dr. Joseph Mafofo from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, shares some preliminary results and challenges from their Golden Delicious apple genome sequencing project.