'Rock' and Rice: The Rockefeller-IRRI biotechnology saga

摘要

Next year, 2010, marks not only the International Rice Research Institute's (IRRI) 50th anniversary but also a half century of collaboration between the Institute and its co-founder, the Rockefeller Foundation. This includes an alliance that started aquarter century ago to help create the new discipline of rice biotechnology. When that effort began in 1984, Gary Toenniessen, currently a managing director of the Foundation, led the charge to bring the new developments In molecular and cellular biology to rice. In this interview, he shows what can be accomplished with around US$120 million of funding and a cornucopia of ideas.