As North Carolina’s top economic driver, agriculture is practiced in every corner of the state. But most of the research and technological innovation that could be available to the $103 billion industry comes from companies and universities in the comparatively small, urban areas of the Triad and Triangle.
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The North Carolina Biotechnology Center was saddened to learn that Philip Benfey, Ph.D., an inspiring and pioneering plant geneticist and entrepreneur, passed away on Sept. 26 at the age of 70. Benfey was the Paul Kramer professor of biology at Duke University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.
When Duke molecular plant biologist Lucia Strader gathered regional academic, commercial and non-profit scientists on a Zoom call in summer 2022, her mission for the group was to seek funds to launch a climate-smart agriculture corridor in central North Carolina. The National Science Foundation grant that Strader hoped for didn’t pan out, but what had started as a loose association of like-minded scientists sharing ideas on a video call began to coalesce into a tight social group united in a common cause – to use plants to understand climate change.
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