July 2013 Issue

Marked for progress

Key genes labeled “jewels in the genome” set the stage for faster, cheaper plant breeding.

The four-year, $14.4 million RosBREED plant breeding project, funded in 2009 under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative, is coming to a new stage, winding down, wrapping up, summarizing, and telling people what’s been accomplished. But it’s also ramping up to convince the public to continue the project—because there’s still more to come from supporting this kind of intensive, collaborative research. The project generated 14 new PhDs, 12 of them young plant breeder trainees looking for jobs in which they can carry the work forward. These young Turks fully understand what the project was about and are able to use what […]

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July 1, 2013

Apples, New Developments, Cherries, Stone fruits, Research, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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