by Dan Yates | Oct 24, 2023 | News
World-class talent and sequencing technology at the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is enabling researchers in agriculture and other disciplines to more quickly — and cost effectively — explore the genomes of plants,...
by Dan Yates | Oct 2, 2023 | Blog
A better understanding of plant root structure could lead to more efficient nutrient use in crops, say researchers at the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS). In a recent academic review, “Getting to the roots of N, P, and K uptake,” published in the Oxford...
by Dan Yates | Sep 6, 2023 | News
Research led by a post-doctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is shedding new light into how a protein helps plants acquire nitrogen and other important nutrients for growth. Dr. Mutsutomo Tokizawa...
by Dan Yates | Aug 28, 2023 | News
A global team of scientists is looking to wheat’s past to help it grow into the future. More than two dozen scientists have contributed to a project that that has sequenced and characterized genomes of wild and domesticated einkorn, the world’s first domesticated...
by Dan Yates | Jul 28, 2023 | News
The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) hosted two events on July 19 exploring tools and strategies to advance agri-food research and development. The hybrid seminars, addressing applications for engineering biology and accelerated breeding, were attended by...