RIVERSIDE – (INT) - At the top floor of UC Riverside’s new Plant Research 1 building, geneticist Julia Bailey-Serres is testing how to grow rice to withstand drought and flooding conditions in countries like India.

In the laboratory next to her, researcher Bao-Lam Huynh is growing new varieties of cowpea plants that will be sent to Africa.

Their work takes advantage of the new technology available to researchers at the two-story facility at the west end of campus. The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences held a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 5th to celebrate its opening.

The concrete, glass, and steel building is the first new plant research facility constructed on campus in about 40 years.

Story Date: May 24, 2023