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A blog about leading science in peanut and food security

Peanut Plant Breeding

  • Help set Feed the Future priorities for variety development

    alfloyd

    Feed the Future and USAID is soliciting feedback from the research community about opportunities to accelerate progress in breeding programs for important crops such as peanut, common beans, cassava, and banana. Advancement may take advantage of opportunities offered by genomics tools and other cutting-edge technologies that could be applied to accelerating breeding. “Through Feed the…

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  • D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award

    alfloyd

    Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins, PMIL Lead Scientist and a professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Institute for the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, has won the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. The award recognizes her 30-year career at UGA developing new breeding techniques for peanuts.

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