/ Crop improvement Content for 嘿嘿视频 en /blog/african-crispr-course-wins-2-million-funding <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The 嘿嘿视频&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://pba.ucdavis.edu/pba-africa"><span><span>African Plant Breeding Academy</span></span></a><span><span>&nbsp;has been awarded $2 million to train scores of African scientists to advance crop breeding, increase production and improve nutrition for regional crops across the continent.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> May 26, 2023 - 10:52am Andy Fell /blog/african-crispr-course-wins-2-million-funding /news/gene-network-lets-plant-roots-handle-nitrogen <p>With robotics, computers and advanced genetics, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have established a core set of genes that help plants metabolize nitrogen, the key to plant growth and crop yield. They published their findings Oct. 24 in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0656-3"><em>Nature</em></a>.&nbsp;</p> October 24, 2018 - 9:45am Andy Fell /news/gene-network-lets-plant-roots-handle-nitrogen