August 09
Virginia Tech
releases new wheat variety in memory of dedicated seedsman
March 09
200,000 rice
mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation
April 08
Huge virulence
gene superfamily responsible for devastating plant diseases
September 07
New type of
rice grows better and uses water more efficiently than other
rice crops
June 07
Small,
self-controlled planes to detect airborne pathogens above
agricultural fields
May 07
The Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute completes largest ever Affymetrix
GeneChip microarray study for a plant experimental system in an
academic research setting
April 07
Virginia Tech
offers new online master's degree in agriculture and life
sciences
October 06
Asian soybean rust found
in Virginia, but not a threat to current crop
August 06
U.S. Department of Energy
Joint Genome Institute and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describe
evolutionary origin, disease-causing mechanisms of sudden oak death and
related soybean disease pathogens
Sequences reveal benign origin of deadly plant
pathogens
April 06
Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute to develop tomato metabolite database
February 06
Virginia Tech helping
to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties
New method enables gene
disruption in destructive fungal pathogen
August 05
Pssible discovery of
Asian soybean rust spores in Suffolk, Virginia
July 05
Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute researcher receives USDA functional genomics grant to develop
control of major soybean pathogen
March 05
New winter hulless barley
Virginia Tech’s Small Grains Breeding Program has high protein
Plan to protect Virginia's
soybean crop is ready
Virginia Tech computer
program helps farmers make decisions about pastureland
November 04
Virginia Tech
researchers discover defense mechanisms in some plants believed bred out
by humans
Virginia Tech's
scientists working to protect the state's largest crop from disease
Virginia Tech and The
Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) sign memorandum for new alliance
August 04
Virginia Tech
researchers monitor crop-killing soybean disease
Tobacco is
promising factory for biopharmaceuticals
|