World Community Grid
World Community Grid
Millions of personal computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide, waiting, running screen savers. What if each of the world's billion PCs could be linked to focus on humanity's most pressing issues?
Nutritious Rice for the World
Wed, 05/14/2008 - 12:10pm — kelda
On May 12, volunteers on the World Community Grid started crunching the numbers on a new project. Nutritious Rice for the World is an ambitious and long-term project to help farmers breed better rice strains. Currently, farmers can only select for traits that are readily apparent. The Nutritious Rice research team hopes to be able to place biological markers that would allow farmers to breed rice with more complicated traits, such as nutritional content or the ability to thrive in different environments.
