FVSI VISION
Through ground-breaking, transdisciplinary discovery and outreach, the North Carolina State University Fruit and Vegetable Science Institute (FVSI) will pioneer a dramatic shift in the way the American public views and uses plant food crops – not merely as a source of nutrients and flavorful calories, but as a powerful resource for components that protect and enhance human health. Integrated research in metabolomics, biochemistry, pharmacogenomics, breeding and postharvest attributes will lead to development of mainstream fruit and vegetable produce with enhanced health benefits, and introduction of new or underappreciated crops and products, allowing consumers to make proactive, responsible dietary choices that benefit their own, and their family’s, health.
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Sept. 12, 2005
NC State University press release
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Results magazine, NC State University
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Perspectives magazine, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
NC State University - As NC Research Campus Grows, so does College's Role
Perspectives magazine, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
NC State University - Big Name Coming to Campus
The Salisbury Post - Murdock School for Girls to Team Up with N.C. Research Campus
Concord Independent-Tribune - Campus Shines at Summit
Salisbury Post - Murdock Endows Research Campus Faculty Positions
Independent Tribune - NC State Offering Seminar on Plants
Salisbury Post - NCRC News Molecule: Farmer's Market
Salisbury Post
Focus
- Our core focus, in collaboration with other universities, is nutrition and human health.
- NC State Research Faculty will determine optimal nutritional characteristics for various fruits and vegetables.
- Work with nutritional information to develop plants that meet the nutritional requirements.
- Determine how best to produce plants commercially.
- Work to Increase the yield of vegetable crops in diverse growth environments while at the same time improving nutritional quality.
- Continue to train the next generation of plant breeders.
- Work with geneticists who have developed many of the basic biological and statistical tools for mapping genes that influence horticulturally important traits to devise genetic systems for avoidance of plant diseases and insects, reducing farmers' dependence on pesticides.
- Use state-of-the art facilities to determine protein structures that mediate growth, resistance and nutrient production, and for molecular imaging of cellular function.