By Kay Ledbetter
Plant breeders in all career stages, from job-seeking graduate students to established industry professionals, recently gathered at the National Association for Plant Breeding conference on the Texas A&M University campus.
The conference, themed “AI-Driven Innovation: Transforming Genomes and Phenomes for the Future of Plant Breeding,” brought together public- and private-sector plant breeders. Attendees shared technical knowledge, pushed for a unified national plant breeding agenda and worked to shape the next generation of scientists.
More than 400 attendees heard from experts on 40-plus crops who shared innovative breeding strategies and discussed emerging technologies at the event, hosted locally by the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
“Texas A&M AgriLife reflects the breadth of work happening across agriculture today,” said Jeffrey W. Savell, Ph.D., vice chancellor and dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences. “Finding solutions means bringing together people from different stages in their careers, different places and different specializations. That’s who is in this room.”
Source : tamu.edu