INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING AND RESEARCH

Agriculture and Forestry are Virginia's largest industries, accounting for over $91 billion dollars and over 442,000 jobs. Therefore, researchers at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) are focused on improving agricultural production naturally through biology and technology. They are spotlighting biotechnology in the form of beneficial plant bacteria endophytes, the products they produce and mechanisms they possess to engineer faster growing and healthier plants... The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia that engages the resources of Virginia Tech, Danville Community College, Averett University and other partners. Its main goal is to diversify, transform and grow the economy of Southern Virginia... Long before the current interest in biostimulants started, researchers at IALR studied the fundamentals of plant and endophyte interactions by merging the fields of plant science, microbiology..

Primary location: Danville United States