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David and Soraya Bertioli, who are leading Peanut Innovation Lab projects that build on their groundbreaking work to map the peanut genome, were honored Thursday night at the closing of the 51st Annual American Peanut Research and Education Society conference. The two scientists took home the American Peanut Council Research Award, while David Bertioli also…
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March is National Peanut Month, a time to celebrate the nutritious and delicious peanut. The Georgia peanut industry gathered together on March 4 to celebrate one of the most popular nuts in the world for the 2019 Georgia PB&J Day at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Elected officials were involved in the celebration, including…
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Experts who worked together in the Peanut Innovation Lab precursor, the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, recently co-authored a book chapter on weed control in peanut. Weed scientists at North Carolina State University, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Crops Research Institute and the University of Development Studies in Ghana wrote “Sustainable Weed Management…
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A year-long trial involving methodical exposure to small amounts of peanut protein shows promise in alleviating the most serious peanut allergies. The results, announced Sunday at a conference of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in Seattle, may lead to the first oral medication that could eliminate severe peanut allergies in children. After…
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The Peanut Innovation Lab held a webinar on July 24 to discuss gender in peanut research. If you missed it, you can watch the webinar on YouTube. Check out background materials at the link in the description or through the comments.
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The National Peanut Board has launched an engaging, informative new website that tout all the ways peanuts are valuable to our environment, health and communities. The Peanut Vision: Sustainable, Nutritious, Global Food Source sums up the power of peanuts in one statement: “Peanuts are positioned to meet the challenges of a growing world.” While 85%…
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The University of Georgia has received a $14 million grant from the U.S. Agency of International Development to manage the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut Research, known as the “Peanut Lab,” a global peanut research program that works to alleviate hunger by helping farmers in developing countries grow healthy crops. The agreement builds…
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Jia-Sheng Wang, the lead scientist on a PMIL project to validate a system to detect aflatoxin in dried blood, has been awarded the 2018 Translational Impact Award from the Society of Toxicology. Wang serves as head of the Department of Environmental Health Science at the University of Georgia College of Public Health and has 35…