Biotech Updates

U.S. Plant Breeding National Workshop

January 5, 2007

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and North Carolina State University (NCSU) will organize a national workshop to be held on 8-9 February 2007 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The theme of the workshop is “Plant breeding: A vital capacity for U.S. national goals”. The workshop’s goal is to come up with a strategic response to address various challenges in U.S. public and private plant breeding. Among these is the continued decline in the amount of investments in plant breeding in the U.S.

More information at http://www.plantbreedingworkshop.ncsu.edu.