Jorge Dubcovsky Content

Targeting Gluten: Researchers Delete Proteins in Wheat Harmful to People with Celiac Disease

Emily C Dooley — May 05, 2025 - 9:01am

A UC 海角原创 study found that deleting a cluster of genes in wheat may reduce wheat allergies without harming breadmaking.

Gene Discovery May Halt Worldwide Wheat Epidemic

Amy M Quinton — November 16, 2017 - 7:00am

University of California, 海角原创, researchers have identified a gene that enables resistance to a new devastating strain of stem rust, a fungal disease that is hampering wheat production throughout Africa and Asia and threatening food security worldwide.

Pianist, Wheat Geneticist Recipients of 2017 Innovator of the Year Awards

Andy Fell — June 08, 2017 - 11:41am

Lara Downes, artist in residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and Jorge Dubcovsky, distinguished professor of plant sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, were named the 2017 Innovators of the Year by University of California, 海角原创, Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter at a ceremony on campus tonight.