Cover Story
New tricks for
a very old crop
As challenges -- from yields to climate change -- to the world's rice crop grow, plant geneticist Susan McCouch and other researchers at Cornell are collaborating across disciplines to weed through the past to ensure this vital crop's future.
Plant physiologists, geneticists, computational biologists, agronomists and engineers are collaborating across disciplines to exploit the genetic variation found in ancestors of cultivated Asian and African rice to breed entirely new varieties to ensure that this staple crop, which provides more than a fifth of calories consumed across the globe, will thrive in a changing environment. Read more
VIEWPOINT
Getting down and dirty in the rice paddy
Though I never realized it until now, my life seems always to have revolved around rice. Read more
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Frank Robinson talks Johnson Museum ... David Croll on faculty hiring ... North Star eatery provides choice and taste on a grand scale ... Paul McEuen pens "Spiral" ...Read more
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A look at how far one college -- the College of Engineering -- has come in increasing the diverse makeup of its faculty, and how much further it intends to go, as well as a look at diversity across the university.