Generation Challenge Programme

Philanthropy News Digest (2009). Initiative launched to bring molecular plant breeding tools to the developing world. 8 September 2009. View article

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (2009). Getting to the bottom of rice. View article.

Related GCP project is Commissioned project G4005.35 ‘Sequencing multiple and diverse rice varieties: connecting whole-genome variation with phenotype’ (PI: Ken McNally of IRRI).

Related media coverage on this same GCP project:

• Insciences Organisation. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Seedquest. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Physorg.com. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article.
• Science daily. Unlocking the genetic diversity of rice. 2 August 2009. View article
• Buggy Brains. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• RedOrbit. Science section. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Eureka Alert. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Molecular Plant Breeding. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Science Codex. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Seed Daily. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Earth Witness. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• NewsGuide.us. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• Soyatech. Getting to the bottom of rice. View article
• For a full list related list of related media coverage on this project, click here

Olchondra RT (2009). PhilRice eyes flood-tolerant rice. Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 9, 2009. View article

Greiner L (2009). Crop improvement technology provides benefits to developing countries. Article published in Innovations from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech and relates to SP5 Commissioned project G4006.14: Ex-ante impact analysis of marker-assisted selection technologies supported by the Generation Challenge Programme (PI: George Norton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA). View article