Can a wasp feed the world?

It can help.

If its larvae are nurtured near millet fields where a devastating moth steals harvests from the field, they can grow to become predators that destroy the pests and save a crop. And that just might put more food in more mouths and earn money for struggling farmers in the world’s poorest countries.

11.09.2014

Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?

05.31.2014

To accelerate the continual development of new and improved wheat varieties, novel approaches are needed to extend conventional selection methods, according to Dr. Jesse Poland, an assistant professor at Kansas State University and director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics.

03.27.2014

The tech sector and Silicon Valley
are synonymous. The Research Triangle embodies biotech and life science innovation.
Where is the world’s nucleus of global food systems? Kansas State University leaders and experts will tell you they’re in it.

01.01.2014