Peanut Research Topics Approved

The National Peanut Board recently announced that some research topics had been approved. Tyron Spearman has the details.

Citrus Breeder Continued His Passion to the End
Despite cancer-related ills in recent years, citrus breeder Fred Gmitter continued his work passion, which included development of trees that were more tolerant of or resistant to HLB. “That was our mission,” said Jude Grosser, his fellow citrus breeder at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Citrus Research and Education […]
New Tool Speeds Regeneration of Gene-Edited Citrus
Editing a plant’s genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer’s field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells. That process can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible. A new study describes a way to speed […]