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BARD at 2019 JEDG
Yoram Kapulnik presents BARD's accoumplishments at the 2019 U.S.–Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG)
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Powerful Impact from Agricultural R&D
After 40 years of funding pioneering academic research, BARD is announcing a new strategic direction, to increase the engagement of academia with the private sector, accelerating the transformation of innovative scientific research into food for the table of an increasingly hungry planet.
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Antibiotic Awareness
Although antimicrobials are vital to defend people, animals and plants against infections, their misuse and overuse can lead to their failure as microbes develop resistance to these life-saving treatments.
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Best Wishes Iris
BARD's mythological bookkeeper, Iris Shiovits, retires after 35 years of dedicated service.
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Sampling Composted Biosolids
Many pharmaceutical compounds are active at very low doses, and a portion of them regularly enters municipal sewage systems and wastewater-treatment plants following use, where they often do not fully degrade.
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Breeding Taste Back into Tomatoes
The ever-growing demand of consumers for improved quality of fresh market tomatoes has led the industry to team-up with breeding research experts. BreedX is working together with American and Israeli researchers to produce better tasting tomatoes.
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Tomato Genome Mapping
Funded by BARD: Scientists’ new tomato genome-mapping project provides key to unlocking improved flavor..
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BARD Workshop: Fruit Microbiome
BARD-sponsored workshop led by Dr. Michael Wisniewski from and Dr. Samir Droby, from the ARO
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BARD 2020 New Year Newsletter
The past year has been an exciting year for us at BARD, as we are marking the funds' 40th anniversary.
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BARD Celebrates 40 Years
On April 30'th US and Israeli officials celebrate 40 years of agricultural R&D Cooperation at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Officials pledged to deepen ties.
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BARD Announces 2019 Awards
The 2019 BARD Research Grants, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Graduate Student Fellowships and Senior Researcher Fellowships.
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BARD Workshop: Managing Water for Agriculture
Scientists from Israel and California met to exchange ideas for managing water for agriculture. Dr. Doug Parker, the director of the California Institute for Water Resources: “The goal of this workshop is creating new partnerships, meeting new people, networking, and finding ways to work together.”
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BARD Scientists fight Bovine Mastitis
University of Tenessee Institute of Agriculture highlights a BARD researh project with the Kimron Vet Inst and Hebrew U to understand the infection mechanism of dairy cow mastitis
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Acknowledging Our Researchers
Prof. Gene Robinson acknowledged for outstanding research dontributions
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Saving the Tomato (Hebrew)
See how BARD supported research helped to solve an important tomato pest -- in Hebrew!
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Food Waste for Energy
A BARD postdoctoral researcher explains to Time magazine how your food waste could eventually power your home
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Barn Owls for Pest Control
BARD Workshop - The use of barn owls for agricultural pest control
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BARD Salutes Prof. Dan Yakir
The former BARD Postdoc received Israel's highest honor to a scientist, the Israel Prize for his insights on forests' critical role in climate and the environment.
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David Zilberman awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture
BARD salutes Prof. David Zilberman from the Dept of Ag and Resource Economics at Berkeley on his award of the Wolf Prize for agriculture for 2019.
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A Rose Scented Salad
In a BARD Fund-supported study, scientists have genetically engineered a tomato variety that exudes rose and lemon aromas.
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'Gut' Feeling Leeds to Innovative Insect Control
a team of US and Israeli scientists have gained new insight into the intricate relationship between the Mediterranean fruit fly – a major agricultural pest – and the bacteria that reside in its gut. Their findings may provide Agriculture with improved means of preventing this insect from damaging fruit.
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Novel Vaccine for Carp
A group of US and Israeli researchers, supported by the BARD Fund, have made great progress in their study of the “cyprinid herpesvirus-3,” a major carp fish pathogen. Their research has led to the development of an effective vaccine for cyprinid herpesvirus-3, currently employed by Israeli fisheries.
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