Useful Rice Sites

Resources to Combat Misinformation 

•      AFP Fact Check 

•      Snopes 

•      Quackwatch

•      Google reverse image search

•      Lead Stories 

•      WHO mythbusters 

•      FactCheck.org (And SciCheck)

•      Retraction Watch

•      List of fake news sites, Wikipedia

Communicating Science Effectively

•      National Academies Report on Communicating Science Effectively

•      ACC Evaluating Information Tutorial

•      News Literacy Project

•      Medline Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial

•      Media Literacy Now

•      SCC Research Guide-Consumer Health Websites

•      Best Practices Manual for Science Communication

Teaching Tools for Food, Farming and Genetics

•      L’objectif de 25 % d’agriculture biologique en 2030 est confirmé

•      Dossier Le panel de variétés s’enrichit

•      NBT : la législation européenne en consultation

•      Golden Rice Project

•      A Timeline of Genetic Modification in Modern Agriculture 

•      2020 Global Food Security Index Launch 

•      FDA crop biotechnology curriculum for high school teachers and students

•      Tomorrow's food: How GMOs change global farming

•      Plantae

•      ISAAA Briefs

•      The 2016 National Academy of Sciences report on Genetically Engineered Crops

•      The 2014 USDA report on Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States

•      Tomorrow's Table 2018 Edition (available here)

•      AJ Stein references on "GMOs"

•      The future of food may depend on an unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering (Boston globe 2018)

•      Plant genetics, ecological based farming, and the future of food (Geographical Review 2017)

•      Biology Fortified

•      DNA Animations

•      Sub1: A Triumph of Marker Assisted Breeding

•      Annual Review of Plant Biology

•      Institute For Food & Agricultural Literacy

•      People Behind The Science

•      K-12 Science Education

•      Biology Lectures

•      iBiology - Bringing the World's Best Biology to You

•      Writing Tips

•      A farmer explains the relationship between glyphosate, soil fertility and climate change.

•      An Ode To Farming

•      Funding Basic Science to Revolutionize Medicine, 2013 FASEB Stand Up for Science - Youtube

•      Central Concepts of Plant Pathology: The Role of Recognition in Host- Parasite Interaction - The American Phytopathological Society Plant Disease's Channel - Youtube

•      USA Science & Engineering Festival   

•      Learning About Science Through Art

•      In Search of Honey Bloom

•     Ronald Lab Partnerships in K-12 Learning: 

  •  Science Through Art

  • GATEways Robbins Hall Column

  • Bioenergy in the Schools Program

  • Download the K-12 Art Science Education Brochure

  • Skype in the Classroom: Ronald chats with Allisonville Elementary School

  • Students, Indiana

Open Access Policies

•      Fort Lauderdale Agreement

•      Genetic Resources Recognition Fund