Mar 15
Desert Research That’s Changing the World
Baltimore, Maryland
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7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Agus Library
8101 Park Heights Avenue
Pikesville, Maryland 21208
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Prof. Simon Barak is a senior lecturer at BGU’s French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research located at the Sde Boker Campus. His research focuses on identifying genes that allow plants to tolerate the harsh environmental stresses characteristic of arid regions. His team has found that by removing two different genes, the tolerance of a specific plant, Arabidopsis, to heat, salt and drought could be increased. An agreement signed between BGN Technologies, BGU’s technology transfer company and Bayer CropScience, will allow Prof. Barak’s team to identify additional genes that have an effect on making plants more “stress-resistant.”