Michelmore lab awarded USDA grant for improving the production of lettuce

The Michelmore lab, led by Genome Center Director Richard Michelmore, are part of a group that have been awarded a $4.5 million grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (part of the USDA) to help improve, and sustain, the production of lettuce. This five-year grant will enable researchers to use the latest genomics technologies to work with this important food crop and the project will be led by Professor Michelmore, who commented:

Current sequencing and genome editing technologies enable us to identify and use genes determining agriculturally important traits with unprecedented accuracy. Richard Michelmore

More details of this story are available on the UC Davis News site: Sustaining our salad: UC Davis wins specialty-crops grant for lettuce project