Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
The Bellwether Foundation: Leading the Way in Plant Science Innovation
With a mission to enhance quality of life in St. Louis through bold, future-focused philanthropy, The Bellwether Foundation has become a catalytic force in plant science innovation at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The Foundation’s visionary support has powered critical advances in phenotyping—a field that uses imaging and AI to observe how plants grow,…
Read MoreBuilding Capacity: Advanced Training to Improve Teff Productivity
Long before he became a plant biologist studying crop improvement at the Danforth Center, Ibsa Merga was learning about agriculture as a child growing up on his family’s farm in the countryside of Ethiopia. Farming is the backbone of the local community there, and Merga spent his early years working with the plants his family…
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