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nois at Urbana-Champaign and Monsanto announced the establishment of the Monsanto Fellows in Plant Breeding Fund. The new fund will finance graduate fellowship students pursuing doctoral degrees in plant breeding at the University of Illinois’s Plant Breeding Center in order to provide support for students working toward future careers in plant breeding. The Monsanto Fellowships will be awarded to eight Ph.D. students conducting research projects developed jointly with Monsanto in the area of germplasm enhancement of agronomic and horticultural crops. Cornell Receives Grant to Combat Wheat Rust Cornell University has received a $26.8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a broad-based global partnership to combat wheat stem rust. The new Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project will bring together 15 institutions to combat the emergence of new variants of stem rust. The program will enlist the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute to be key research sites to develop new disease-resistant wheat varieties in collaboration with scientists at CIMMYT, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Area in Syria and the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization and advanced research laboratories in the United States, Canada, China, Australia and South Africa will also collaborate on the project. Syngenta Plans R&D Center in China Syngenta plans to build a new biotech research and technology center in Beijing, China, to focus on earlystage evaluation of GM and native traits for key crops such as corn and soybeans. Areas of development will include yield improvement, drought resistance, disease control and biomass conversion for biofuels. The facility will have a global scope and will complement Syngenta’s biotech research activities in the United States. The investment will be approximately $65 million in the first five years. Staffing will increase to about 200 when the facility is completed in 2010. CORRECTION Incomplete and inaccurate contact information was included in “Soybean of the West” First Quarter Seed Today 2008, pp.16-17 (www.nxtbook.com/ nxtbooks/grainjournal/ seedtoday_q108/) The correct contact information: Great Plains-The Camelina Company, Bigfork, MT (877-922-6645/ www.camelinacompany.com) Green Earth Fuels, LLC, Houston, TX (713) 237-2800/ www.greenearthfuelsllc.com) Sustainable Oils, Inc., Bozeman, MT (406-587-1218/www.susoils.com) Targeted Growth, Inc., Seattle, WA (206336-5570/www.targetedgrowth.com) ™ Turn prospects into customers with the resources of Farm Plan. Low-rate, deferred-payment ﬁnancing tied to the production cycle draws customers from miles around. And convenient, dependable credit keeps them coming back to you for everyday and seasonal supplies. Visit FarmPlan.com or call 800.356.3446. Use Farm Plan to put the numbers to work for you. Response No. 371 Farm Plan is a service of FPC Financial, f.s.b. CR0311849 Litho in U.S.A. (06-04) ™ http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/grainjournal/seedtoday_q108/ http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/grainjournal/seedtoday_q108/ http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/grainjournal/seedtoday_q108/ http://www.camelinacompany.com http://www.greenearthfuelsllc.com http://FarmPlan.com http://www.susoils.com http://FarmPlan.com http://www.targetedgrowth.com

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