Science enlists nature and collaboration to ‘neutralise’ acidic soils
DNA spiral Crop researchers including plant breeders across five continents are collaborating on several GCP projects to develop local varieties of sorghum, maize and rice, which can withstand...
View ArticleSugarcane, sorghum, students and maize: Claudia’s colourful and contrasting...
Read how this cocktail blends in a comparative genomics crucible, where both family genes and crop genes come into play in Brazil. Nothing whatsoever to do with the World Cup. It’s all about a...
View ArticleSuper Sam: Kenya’s nurturing geneticist, and the fruits of his labour
Samuel Gudu “Having funding to support PhD students and provide them with the resources they need to complete their research is very fulfilling and will go a long way to enhance the long-term success...
View ArticleLively Leon: a never-grow-old researcher, and his biological rebirths
Leon Kochian “By being involved with GCP, I’ve had more opportunities to travel to the developing world and witness the problems that local farmers in these countries are facing, as well as to meet...
View ArticleJura’s ‘jurassic’ journeys of discovery to and from sorghum’s ‘seven seas sede’
Welcome to Brazil! Journey by road six hours northwest from Rio de Janeiro and you’ll arrive to Sete Lagoas, a city whose name means ‘Seven Lagoons’ in Portuguese. Although cloistered in farmlands,...
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