The Wheat Genetic Resource Center (WGRC) in the department of Plant Pathology at Kansas State University is seeking a Computational Biologist or Bioinformatics Scientist. The successful candidate will join a vibrant team of researchers investigating diverse aspects of wheat genetics and genomics focusing on the development of resources, tools, and strategies to identify and deploy […]
04.03.2023
SAN DIEGO, CA-Eduard Akhunov gave three talks at the 2023 Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California. On January 14, 2023, Eduard presented Application of Multiplex Genome Editing Strategies for Engineering Regulatory Regions and Complex Gene Loci in Wheat. On January 15, 2023, Eduard spoke on the topic Prioritizing Adaptive Diversity from Wild Relatives for […]
01.14.2023
BALTIMORE, MD-Eduard Akhunov received the Calvin Sperling Memorial Biodiversity Lectureship award from Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) at the 2022 ASA-CSSA-SSS International Annual Meeting on November 8, 2022. Eduard gave a lecture titled, “The Quest to Find Adaptive Diversity in Wild Relatives to Improve Wheat.” The Quest to Find Adaptive Diversity in Wild […]
11.08.2022
BOLOGNA, Italy: On October 26, 2022, Eduard Akhunov, director of the WGRC, was invited to give two talks at the international conference “From Seed to Pasta.” His first presentation was titled, “Leveraging modern genomic resources to identify adaptive variants and optimize breeding strategies in wheat.” His second talk was titled, “Uncovering the regulatory landscape of […]
10.26.2022
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists working on the Kansas State University campus are part of a national team that has earned praise for its pioneering work in building sturdy resistance to a highly-virulent strain of stem rust in wheat. The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative awarded its 2020 Gene Stewardship award to […]
10.19.2020
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University wheat geneticist is receiving nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, for two projects to improve the genetic diversity of wheat. Modern wheat is historically a genetically narrow species. Centuries of focused breeding to […]
06.18.2020
Punya Nachappa, assistant professor at Colorado State University explains how wheat curl mites avoid insecticides, how climate change is leading to increasing populations and why breeding for host plant resistance is key to preventing outbreaks.
04.13.2020
Join us for a virtual tour of wheat’s wild relatives in our greenhouse space at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center
04.05.2020
K-State scientists are part of an international team of researchers that have deciphered the genetic code of a wild ancestor of wheat.
07.07.2017
K-State researchers have identified a gene that will provide resistance to the wheat streak mosaic virus.
06.08.2017
Kansas State University wheat scientists have completed the first study of a chromosome in a tertiary gene pool and have called it a breakthrough in exploring wheat wild relatives for future crop improvement.
10.06.2015
Kansas State University wheat researchers are leading efforts to develop a better understanding of the wheat genome.
08.04.2015
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
The National Science Foundation has named Kansas State University as its lead institution for the world’s first Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on wheat.
08.19.2013
The dun wheat field spreading out at Ravi P. Singh’s feet offered a possible clue to human destiny. Baked by a desert sun and deliberately starved of water, the plants were parched and nearly dead.
06.04.2011
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