Grant awarded: Lucia Gutierrez part of multi-institution effort to help wheat adapt to climate change
Lucia Gutierrez, associate professor of agronomy, is part of a multi-institution research team that recently received a five-year, $15 million grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to accelerate wheat breeding to help the crop adapt to new climate change-related weather patterns, as well as to train the next generation of plant breeders.
The University of California, Davis is the lead institution on the grant, which will create a coordinated consortium of 41 wheat breeders and researchers from 22 institutions in 20 states, as well as Mexico and the United Kingdom.
UW–Madison will receive $500,000 to contribute to the project, an effort that will be led by Gutierrez.
For more information, read the University of California, Davis news release.