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Five people stand indoors, with the central person holding a plaque. They are posing together and wearing conference name badges.

 Awards & Honors July 24, 2023

Peanut Innovation Lab takes home research award

Farmers standing in a row of crops

 Agriculture April 20, 2022

Innovation Lab uses power of peanuts to fight hunger

UGA horticulture scientist Ye Juliet Chu is the latest peanut researcher in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to produce three breeding lines from peanut’s wild relatives

 Plant Science January 20, 2022

Peanut researchers create disease-resistant hybrids

David and Soraya Leal-Bertioli in a greenhouse

 Genetics September 13, 2021

Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience

photo of David Bertioli and his wife, Soraya Leal-Bertioli, in their greenhouses at the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies

 Plant Science May 18, 2021

New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present

image of a cluster of peanuts

 Agriculture March 04, 2020

School snack could help students in Africa, create more demand for peanuts

African peanut breeders explore diversity in genes of local varieties

 Plant Science August 08, 2019

African peanut breeders explore diversity in genes of local varieties

Jamie Rhoads, then-assistant director of the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab at the University of Georgia, shows Mozambican student root nodulation on a peanut plant in Montepuez, Mozambique, in January 2017.

 Agriculture January 29, 2018

UGA and USAID launch new partnership to fight hunger with peanuts

University of Georgia researcher in corn field

 Agriculture November 18, 2016

Enhancing sorghum’s drought resiliency