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UF Researchers Launch Plans To Improve Vanilla Through Plant Breeding
By Alexander Lugo
March 10, 2021
Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have partnered with Elo Life Systems to find a new way to grow vanilla more sustainably without compromising taste.
The research aims to read genomes in vanilla species to help researchers at IFAS breed plant species more easily, said Alan Chambers, plant geneticist at UF’s IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center.
Chambers said the ability to read genomes makes plant-breeding easier because it enables researchers to track plant DNA faster. Plant breeders would then be able to mix and match those DNA sequences, and researchers would in turn be able to improve targeted plant traits like taste or disease resistance.
Invasive subterranean termite that have gained a foothold in South Florida are looking beyond dead wood, gutting South Florida's oldest living trees and leaving them vulnerable to being toppled by high winds, tropical storms and hurricanes.
Should Florida Exterminate or Accommodate Invasive Species?
Florida consistently ranks as one of the top five places in the world with the most invasive species. And the state is the world epicenter of invasive reptiles.
By
Isaac Eger
3/10/2021 at 11:38am
Published in the March-April 2021 issue of
Sarasota Magazine
Silhouetted against the moonlight, the strangest lizard I had ever seen hung on my porch screen. A foot long from head to tail, with wide golden eyes and a baby-blue body with bright tangerine spots, it looked like something a child might draw with a big box of crayons. I caught it with a mixing bowl and a Van Morrison
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