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Ashley Rasys holds one of the lizards on her fingertip.

UGA scientists create world's first gene-edited lizards

By Michael Terrazas

Anolis gene edit mutation

Menke Lab ‘Game-changing’ gene edit advances squamate genomics

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Lizards Through Microinjection of Unfertilized Oocytes

William Jordan and Lexiang Ji look over one of many sets of Arabidopsis thaliana, which were used to research a new plant breeding technique.

UGA researchers develop method to improve crops

Technique using plant's own DNA could produce crops that are more resistant to drought and disease

Nick Batora, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Genetics

Nick Batora, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Genetics, studies the Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)

Plants produce an outstanding diversity of chemicals to ward off insects and other herbivores intent on consuming them.

For centuries, people have used these plant chemicals to season food, create fragrances, or as healing medicine.

Kelly Dawe

UGA to lead NSF project to rapidly sequence corn pangenome

Project will sequence genetic diversity of world’s largest cash crop