BTI receives DARPA 'Insect Allies' Award

(Boyce Thompson Institute) Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Davis, and Iowa State University have received a four-year $10.3 million award to engineer insect-vectored viruses to express genes in maize that can help in combatting disease, drought, and other yield-reducing stresses.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news