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A plant research center such as PSB can play a significant role in assisting countries in the Global South in mitigating climate change and developing sustainable agriculture through several strategies, such as:

The center is built on the foundations of the Laboratory of General Genetics, pioneered by Jeff Schell and Marc Van Montagu. Research in the early days was focused on microbial genetics: the study of restriction and modification in Escherichia coli, and the search for the tumor-inducing principle (TIP) in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.