Plant genetics will play a vital role in knowing what a plants desired soil type will be and if it is different from the current industrial method. With this information food growers can mimic the native geographic growing environment that the plant will thrive in.
Insito.me has an interesting application that will launch soon and deserves some attention in the field of human genetics. It would be interesting to find out if their data would allow for humans to follow early migration routes and if certain foods were brought to certain areas en route. We theorize that if we map our genetics back to a geographic origin, we would likely find our clan’s predisposed home food source diet. This would be significant in finding a proper nutrition dose for geographically disposed genetic symptoms.
“Centuries of selection for preferred traits, accelerated dramatically with the development of scientific plant breeding, have had tremendous positive impacts on food security and an improved quality of life. Today’s scientific advances in genomics and genetics are exploring new frontiers in plant breeding, including rapid and targeted advances in specific traits. But there is still more work to do and many goals to achieve. Constantly evolving plant pests and pathogens, global climate change, and changing social needs make plant breeding, genetics, and genomics ever more vital.” – Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics Programs | National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Previously Funded Projects
- FY 2013 AFRI Plant Breeding Projects (link is external)
- FY 2014 AFRI Plant Breeding Projects (link is external)
- FY 2015 AFRI Plant Breeding Projects (link is external)
- FY 2015 Food Security – Breeding and Genomics of Crops and Livestock Projects (link is external)
- FY 2016 NIFA DOE Plant Feedstock Genomics Awards (link is external)
- FY 2016 NIFA International Wheat Yield Partnership (link is external)
- FY 2016 NIFA NSF EAGERs (link is external)
News
- USDA Awards More Than $14.5 Million to Support Plant Health and Resilience Research
- Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces $130 Million Available for Foundational Agricultural Research, Education and Extension
- NIFA-Funded Scientist Receives Presidential Early Career Award
- NIFA, NSF Announce $6 Million in Available Funding to Develop, Enable Breakthrough Technologies for Plant, Animal Phenomics and Microbiomes
- USDA Awards More Than $15 Million to Support Plant Production Research
- USDA Announces $3.4 Million in Funding Available Through International Wheat Partnership Research Program
- Departments of Agriculture, Energy Partner to Award $4.9 Million for Bioenergy Research
- USDA-Funded Researchers Map the Loblolly Pine Genome
- Breeding program brings better, safer corn to South
- The new wave of wheat: Increasing resistant starch to improve health benefits
- Enhancing the Flavor of Food through Plant Breeding
- Discovery brings wheat flowering mechanism to light
- Turning up the heat in battle against chili pepper root rot
- Researcher with NIFA roots garners international prize
- USDA Awards $3.4 Million for Research to Increase Wheat Yields
- USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture Announces $3 Million for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
Resources
- The National Plant Breeding Study
- NIFA Funding Accelerates Wheat & Barley Plant Breeding (Infographic)
Program Specific Resources
External Resources
- REE Action Plan 2015 Progress Report
- Potato Breeding Program Projects (link is external)
- Canola Breeding Program Projects (link is external)
- NIFA-DOE Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy (link is external)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (link is external)
- American Society for Horticultural Science (link is external)
- American Society of Plant Biologists (link is external)
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, National Center for Biotechnology Information (link is external)
- Genetics Society of America (link is external)
- Plant Breeding and Genomics eXtension Community of Practice (link is external)
- The National Association of Plant Breeders, NAPB (link is external)
- Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project (link is external)
- RosBREED (link is external)
- Triticeae Coordinated Agricultural Project (T-CAP) (link is external)