Source: DUKE, 6/3/22

Research, industry and entrepreneurial leaders from across North Carolina met last week to set the stage for realizing an internationally recognized network of excellence in plant research. Their aim: Solving major challenges associated with climate change and its effects on crops and food.

Representatives of universities, industry, the public sector and nonprofits from the Triangle at the vision workshop held at the NCBiotech Center. (Photo by courtesy of Sharlini Sankaran, Duke External Partnerships)This emerging collective of regional partnerships, called the Climate-Plant Innovation Network, will conduct cutting-edge basic and translational research in plant biology to improve productivity and quality of agriculturally and ecologically important crops and train a diverse workforce to contribute to these efforts regionally.

Jenny Lodge, Duke’s vice president for research and innovation, welcomed the more than 30 participants representing universities, industry, the public sector and nonprofits from the Triangle to the vision workshop held at the NCBiotech Center.

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