Nutritious Rice for the World

Learn more about World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

Dr Ram Samudrala, Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Principal Investigator at the University of Washington, shares about his research that analyzes complex protein strains to unlock the secret to more nutritious rice that can help alleviate hunger.

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• World
• Community
• Grid
• IBM
• hunger
• BOINC
• Computing
• Research
• Nutritious
• Rice
• Technology
• WCG
• worldcommunitygrid
• ram
• samudrala

[M3nac3r]

Rock on Ram!It's great to see somebody pleased with all my efforts *grin*

[ibiruyonap]

Oh thanks for this video! I always thought they were going to re-engineer it, not "breed" the plants by cross-breeding. Now I will sign up for it again!

[jhtrico1850]

@jhtrico1850 There's a story out just now that says "Green Super Rice is coming".

[jhtrico1850]

When do we get the new rice?

[Core2QX]

my fav sub project

[Mitkotaichi]

Please join WorldCommunityGrid now!

[boxa888]

ohh great, i am happy you guys are not genetically enginnering the food! im sick of hearing of gm food, thats why our honey bees are dieing and people are getting allergic reactions more now than ever, naturally is the best process. great job guys!! i wish more people did things your way!!