Prof. Pamela Ronald

Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis

How gene isolation in rice varieties has brought security for subsistence farmers

Prof. Pamela Ronald, Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis, co-author of “Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetic and the Future of Food” with her husband, Raoul Adamchak, and recent recipient of a VinFuture award, shares an overview of her work in facilitating the development of submergence resistant, high yielding Sub1 rice varieties now grown by more than six million subsistence farmers in India and Bangladesh.



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Prof. Pamela Ronald

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Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis More

Prof. Pamela Ronald

Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis

Pamela Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California. In 2018 she served as a visiting professor at Stanford University in the Food Security and the Environment Center.