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Monsanto pledges $500,000 for plant breeding programme
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University and Monsanto Company have contributed a $500,000 grant to train the next generation of plant breeding professionals.
The Monsanto Fellows in Plant Breeding and Scholarships in Advanced Analytics Fund will combine education in a public plant breeding programme with learning opportunities at Monsanto. This will help students develop the skills they will need to address global challenges to the future supply of food, fibre and fuel, the company said.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences dean Johnny Wynne, said: “We are grateful to Monsanto for recognising the vast potential of our students and helping us create unique opportunities that will prepare them for work in the global economy.”
Fellowships will be awarded to four doctoral students conducting research in the area of germplasm enhancement of agronomic and horticultural crops. Scholarships will be awarded to six master’s degree candidates in the university’s Institute for Advanced Analytics. Award recipients will be selected based on academic achievement and merit.
In addition to these awards, the fund also will support guest scholar opportunities that will enable plant breeding students to work alongside Monsanto scientists in a corporate research environment.
The fund will be administered by the North Carolina Agricultural and Life Sciences Research Foundation (a subsidiary of the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation) which enhances research programmes by seeking to increase public and private support for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Source: Monsanto
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