REHOBETH, Ala. (WTVY) – Students at both Enterprise and Rehobeth High Schools entered phase two with extracting DNA from peanut plants. It’s part of a research project through a partnership with HudsonAlpha Wiregrass.
Leaders say the collaboration is between research and education to create an authentic and impactful training experience. Over the summer, teachers from previous participating and new schools attended a teacher training program at HudsonAlpha’s main campus in Huntsville.
They learned the knowledge and skills needed to implement the project in their classrooms and provided feedback that informed the project’s growth over the next year. The goal is to expand the WIREGRASS Peanut Project into more schools in the future.
The acronym is ‘With Innovative Regional Experience Growing Real Advancements through Student Scientists.’ The goal of the WIREGRASS Peanut Project is twofold: it allows students to gain real-life research experience using the power of genomics to develop more drought-and disease-resistant peanut varieties while developing valuable laboratory and critical thinking skills.
About HudsonAlpha Wiregrass
The City of Dothan and HudsonAlpha partnered in 2022 to expand HudsonAlpha’s footprint into Dothan, creating the HudsonAlpha Wiregrass, which focuses on agricultural research, economic development, and genomics education. HudsonAlpha Wiregrass began operations in October 2022 and will eventually have an innovation center in place beside the Dothan Civic Center.
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