Improving lettuce crops is the aim of a new $4.5 million grant awarded to University of California, Davis, researchers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Research will range from identifying genes that are key to developing important stress-resistance traits in lettuce to fine-tuning imaging technologies that will allow growers to remotely assess the status of their crops in the field.
The research team represents a broad spectrum of expertise including plant genetics and breeding, food technology, and agricultural economics.
More information is available here: http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11326
