USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biotechnology U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in United States

This research opportunity with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Albany, California focuses on plant molecular biology and crop improvement. The project aims to engineer wheat, and potentially other plants, to create novel desirable traits through genetic engineering and genome editing. The work is centered on developing, improving, and using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation methods to introduce constructs of interest and CRISPR editing componen...

North Carolina State University’s Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture is hiring a Research Scholar for work in plant genome editing. This opportunity is particularly suited to applicants considering a postdoctoral position or researchers who have recently completed a postdoc and want to gain further experience editing difficult-to-transform crops. The research is relevant to agriculture, plant biology, crop biotechnology, genome editing, and sustainable agriculture . The post does ...

This postdoctoral position is based in the School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge. The project is part of a USDA-NIFA grant aimed at improving the sustainability of rice farming by uncovering molecular mechanisms that underlie stress resilience and by developing high-yielding breeding lines. The researcher will work on rice improvement for tolerance to salinity, drought, and heat stress, with a strong emphasis on pla...

The School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a USDA-NIFA-funded project focused on improving the sustainability of rice farming. The research will investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying rice tolerance to salinity, drought, and heat stress. The postdoctoral researcher will design experiments to identify and validate genomic targets and candidate genes, then apply genome-editing tools t...

Fully funded postdoctoral opportunity in Plant Molecular Biology and Crop Biotechnology at the University of Florida , within the Crop Transformation Center in the Department of Horticultural Science. This position is aimed at researchers with a strong background in Plant Biotechnology , Genetics , or Molecular Biology . The post highlights gene editing experience as an advantage, making it a strong fit for candidates interested in crop improvement, transformation systems, and molecular approach...