Pamela Ronald
Professor of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, UC Davis
Executive Committee Member, Co-Lead of Workforce, Industrial, and Societal Engagement
Pamela Ronald is Co-Lead of Workforce, Industrial, and Societal Engagement for AIFS. She is recognized for research in infectious disease biology and environmental stress tolerance. Her isolation of the rice Xa21 immune receptor in 1995 and of a novel microbial immunogen in 2015 revealed a new mechanism with which plants and animals detect and respond to infection. She is also known for her leading role in isolation of the rice Submergence Tolerance 1 gene. Her research facilitated the development of high yielding Sub1 rice varieties grown by more than six million subsistence farmers in India and Bangladesh.
She is coauthor with her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, of ”Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetic and the Future of Food“. She founded the UC Davis Institute for Food and Agriculture Literacy to provide the next generation of scientists with the training they need to become effective communicators.
Project Involvement
Developing an AI-Enabled Toolkit for Routine Integration of Quality Traits into Molecular Breeding Strategies
AI-Enabled and Compound-Driven Toolkit for Molecular Breeding, Nutritional Quality, Aroma, Flavor and Health Traits
Ethics Plan for AIFS
AIFS Publications
Journal Article ⏐ Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2022Journal Article ⏐ Comput. Electron. Agric. 2022Special Report: AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)
Tagkopoulos, Ilias,Steve Brown,Xin Liu,Qing Zhao,Tarek I Zohdi,Mason Earles,Nitin Nitin,Daniel Runcie,Danielle G Lemay,Aaron Smith,Pamela Ronald,Hao Feng,and Gabriel YoutseyDOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2022.106819