There is no quick fix to the world food crisis, but a project that began Wednesday could make a difference in the long run. A team of researchers at the University of Washington are putting a genomics project on the World Community Grid in the computational search for strains of rice that have traits like higher yields, disease resistance and a wider range of nutrients. Ram Samudrala, the principal investigator at the University of Washington, describes the goal of the project as...
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