HTTP:: Future Advancements in Plant Genome Research
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced that it awarded an additional 32 new research grants to plant-genome research, totaling no less than $101.6 million. This year was the 12th of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), and the federal agency awarded research money ranging from $500,000 to more than $10 million to research groups seeking to decipher the mysteries of plants' genomes. Further knowledge in this field could lead to the creation of better plants, as well as to preventing the onset of food crises in the future, the NSF reports. The funds were awarded for time-frames of two to five years, and they primarily deal with the creation of tools and research support able to lead to a better understanding of the function and structure of plant genomes. Crop plants such as corn, cotton, rice, soybean, tomato and wheat already feed a huge portion of the world's population, and keeping them able to produce large amounts of produce is essential !
to ensuring our survival as a race. Some 53 institutions in 30 states received the fund money, including international research groups in Europe, Asia, Africa and Central/South America. The former NSF Assistant Director for Biological Sciences, James P. Collins, said, “Clearly, we are now beginning to see the breadth of the effect...
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