{"id":38780,"date":"2025-09-02T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:27:08","slug":"meet-the-uzbek-scientist-pioneering-genetic-breakthroughs-in-cotton-wheat-and-global-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/38780\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Uzbek scientist pioneering genetic breakthroughs in cotton, wheat and global food security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Dilbar Primova<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 02\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:13\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan\u2019s Minister of Agriculture, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, has transformed global farming with genetic science.<\/p>\n<p>After early cotton research in the US, he pioneered the world\u2019s first gene-knockout cotton, lengthening fibre and boosting yields without crossbreeding. Today, \u201cPorloq\u201d varieties cover 100,000 hectares, while new work extends to salt-tolerant wheat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Tashkent, he also developed cotton oil safe for human use and sequenced COVID-19 genomes during the pandemic. Recognised by UNESCO in 2023, he says: \u201cWhether it\u2019s drought or disease, we can now act fast to find solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspDilbar Primova Published on 02\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 15:13 ADVERTISEMENT Uzbekistan\u2019s Minister of Agriculture, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[2567,18,458,19,3536,17,172,133,19735],"class_list":{"0":"post-38780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-innovation","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-research","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-uzbekistan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}