Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., announces a collaboration with North Carolina State University to facilitate research of rice blast disease, one of the main pathological threats to food supplies worldwide. (Industry News).
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Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., announces a collaboration with North Carolina State University History
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The North Carolina General Assembly founded NC State on March 7, 1887 as a land-grant college under the name North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. to facilitate research of rice blast disease, one of the main pathological threats to food supplies worldwide. Agilent has obtained rights to use the gene sequences from NCSU NCSU North Carolina State University Fungal Genomics Laboratory to develop a gene expression analysis tool for ag researchers. As a result of the collaboration, Agilent will also introduce the industry's first commercial microarray that includes genetic probes from two genomes, specifically rice blast and rice.
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