MatMaCorp’s DNA and RNA testing platform could help protect the U.S. pork supply from African swine fever
On Mar. 24, 2020, MatMaCorp announced the successful evaluation of a genetic test to detect African swine fever…
On Mar. 24, 2020, MatMaCorp announced the successful evaluation of a genetic test to detect African swine fever…
On Dec. 2, 2019, the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture announced it had received a grant by…
On Oct. 19, 2019, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt announced that a plant bioscience laboratory building will be constructed…
On May 16, 2019, a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blueprint, published in “Frontiers and Genetics,” will…
On Jan. 24, 2014, InBios announced that it had licensed a USDA West Nile Virus (WNV) diagnostic kit…
On Nov. 28, 2012, USDA scientists working with an international team have completed a shotgun sequencing of the…
On Jun. 3, 2012, an interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the USDA Agricultural Research…
On Apr. 24, 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed…
On Jul. 1, 2010, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists announced a genetic map of switchgrass, published by…
On Jun. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a nationwide ban on cultivation of biotech alfalfa by…
In 2006, the USDA granted Dow AgroSciences the first regulatory approval for a plant-made vaccine. At present, the…
On Feb. 2, 2002, Pioneer Hi-Bred International made a gift to endow a faculty chair in maize breeding…
In 1996, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invited the Horse Genome Project participants to join their program…
In 1996, food poisoning in the U.S. cost an estimated $22 billion, according to a congressional study. In…
On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
On Dec. 18, 1992, Taxol (paclitaxel), an anticancer drug extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew, received…
In 1985, The USDA’s Germplasm Resources Information Network, GRIN, the remnant of the effort that began at the…
On Jun. 6, 1984, the wave of interest in agricultural biotechnology reached Congress when a House-Senate conference committee…
In 1984, the USDA and the University of CA announce plans to create the Plant Gene Expression Center,…
In 1974, n an attempt to bring order to the loosely structured state/federal new-crops research program, the National…
In 1969, The FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit sponsored the first attempt to develop a standardized, computerized data bank…
In 1963, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), FDA, and USDA and all state health…
In 1959, Arnel Hallauer became director of Iowa State University’s (ISU) maize breeding program. Hallauer was part of…
In 1936, the USDA’s 1936 and 1937 Yearbooks of Agriculture not only sound the first alarm over the…
In 1925, the U.S. Congress voted to cut off its expensive Seed Distribution Program, which had consumed more…
In 1923, more than 50,000 foreign plants had been introduced into the United States since 1862 by the…
In 1918, the first USDA federal-state grading program for poultry was established.
In 1908, Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux at the Pasteur Institute were the first to describe Toxoplasma gondii…
In 1907, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued Food Inspection Decision (F.I.D.) 76, which contained a…
In 1899, the USDA created the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction, which assigns its first Plant Introduction…