Dr. Jinyoung Barnaby is the recipient of a $10,000 mini-grant funded by the National Institute of Crop Science, Rural Development Administration of the Republic of Korea. This is an extension of another grant “Development of a screening methodology for assisting in rice cultivar selection for reduced methane emissions” from the same organization that is administered through the USDA/ARS Office of International Research Programs. The project is entitled “Determine genetic variation of root-soil-microbe interactions in methane emissions”.