Grant to improve poultry production worldwide

(University of California - Davis) UC Davis researchers are leading an international effort to identify genes crucial to breeding chickens with enhanced resistance to Newcastle disease and heat stress. Their project--the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry--recently received a $5 million award from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue its work improving poultry production in Africa and throughout the world.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news