News
Award and Funding Opportunity News
2008 Funding Announcement (IGERT, REU) for Students from NSF - Undergrad Summer Research and Grad School Support
"Training Grant in Putting Plants to Work", UC Davis News & Information, September 12, 2007
"National Science Foundation Awards $3.1 Million IGERT", UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies Announcement, September 12, 2007
"Training Grant in Putting Plants to Work", The Davis Enterprise, September 16, 2007
Environmental Sustainability News
New effort to win EU acceptance for genetically modified crops
Irish scientists look to biotech potato to ward off blight
Scientists at Teagasc, Ireland's agriculture and food development authority, hope to develop a biotech potato that could tolerate blight. The plan is aimed at addressing a "highly aggressive strain" of the fungal disease that was found in the country's eastern counties last year, a Teagasc officer said.
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
Plant-Made Products News
April 30, 2008: Leaf Clippings As Protein Factories
Plant Derived Vaccines, Immunology and Cell Biology (2005) 83, 271–277
Renewable Energy News
March 6, 2008: Newly defined signaling pathway could mean better biofuel sources