Articles by Thana Poopat

color = "#B693B5"; Mapping the Terrain Thailand’s first National Biotechnology Policy Framework served as a roadmap for significant progress, but it had a rocky start. A look back at the Framework provides signposts to guide the way forward. By Thana Poopat and Nantiya Tangwisutijit During the past 3 decades, Thailand has increasingly prioritized biotechnology investment. From medicine to food to plastics to energy, Thailand has emerg

color = "#A6C439"; The Future of Farms How Thai scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and farmers are feeding the world. By Thana Poopat Rice farm nestled between mountain peaks © Sarun Laowong Ming Saree-on has never heard about genomics or quantitative trait loci. What he is all too familiar with, though, is blast, a fungal disease that wilts his rice and income along with it. So when agricultural researchers sho