Climate change leads Brazil to create a genomics research center

The São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and the University of Campinas (Unicamp) will invest $ 32.2 million in the next ten years in the Genomics for Climate Change Research Center (GCCRC) to develop RD&I activities from gene discovery to proof of concept. The result will be the transfer of biotechnology assets to the agricultural sector via genomics, genetics and molecular biology tools such as genetic engineering, genome editing, and whole-genome association studies.