The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) announced Sunday that they will collaboratively donate $25 mil and $15 mil, respectively, to Cornell’s ongoing project to fight wheat pathogens. Begun in April 2008, Cornell’s Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat Project (DRRW) leads a team of 17 institutions across the...
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Researchers Find Way to Improve Crop Yield
After a year of rising food prices and diminishing grain reserves in developed countries, Cornell geneticists may have found a way to improve the outlook for global hunger. Researchers at Cornell’s Institute for Genomic Diversity have isolated the genes that determine leaf angles of maize, and with this precise knowledge in hand, farmers could develop better...