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 From the News Desk...Award recognizes Rutgers plant breederStacy Bonos, Ph.D., assistant professor at Rutgers University, has been named by the multi-state Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee to receive its inaugural Early Career Excellence in Plant Breeding Award.  The award was announced Aug. 4 at the committee’s annual scientific meeting. As the award recipient, Bonos will present her research and anchor a round-table discussion for graduate students at the 2010 meeting.
The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee is a broad-based group including plant breeders from land-grant universities in more than 38 states, plus plant breeders working in the federal government and for private companies. All types of crops are represented, including turf, grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, ornamentals and trees. The award is the first of its kind for plant breeding, and is designed in part to help attract others to consider a career in plant breeding. In her breeding research for turf and biofuels, Bonos uses plant genetic resources to develop new plant types that are more tolerant of pests and poor or dry soils. The committee is a multi-state project administered by the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, in cooperation with the National Institute for Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The committee provides a forum for discussion, organization, and leadership on matters affecting long-term U.S. plant breeding capacities, including research and education, and their relevance to current and future national needs. |
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