Skip to main content
Skip to main content

genetics


APHIS Geneticist Finds New Way to Track Invasive Pythons

April 30, 2014 Gail Keirn, USDA APHIS Public Affairs Specialist

How do you find something that doesn’t want to be found - something that has evolved to be cryptic, elusive, and stealthy? That is the question asked of APHIS geneticist Dr. Antoinette Piaggio. She and others at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) - the research arm of the APHIS Wildlife...

Animals Plants

Virginia Tech Animal Breeding Graduate Program Makes Strides in Online Learning

August 20, 2013 Jill Lee, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA's rich science and research portfolio. Imagine a graduate school that combined the faculty expertise of seven universities throughout the United States...

Research and Science

U.S. Bovine Genetics Help Increase Milk Production in Rwanda

June 17, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

Many countries around the world face challenges when it comes to milk production, particularly in Africa. Over the years, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service has helped to address this issue through education exchange programs, benefiting farmers around the world. Rwanda is among the lowest milk...

Trade

USDA Science Unlocks the Genetic Secrets of the Soybean

January 14, 2010

Today, the work of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), our State Land Grant Universities, and the Department of Energy (DOE) is featured as the cover story in the prestigious science journal, Nature. I am very proud and excited that USDA science played an important part in...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science
Subscribe to genetics

AskUSDA

One central entry point for you to access information and help from USDA.