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Trilateral FPP 2023: Engineering Gene Regulation in Plants to Yield Predictable Expression — NSF Award to University of Washington

Improving agricultural practices to ensure food security and the supply of valuable bioproducts is vitally important for society. Agricultural practices could be improved by using biotechnology to manipulate crop traits or to replace expensive pesticides with plant-produced, affordable compounds. However, both approach

Award titleTrilateral FPP 2023: Engineering Gene Regulation in Plants to Yield Predictable Expression
Award ID2519784
AwardeeUniversity of Washington
CitySEATTLE
StateWA
Amount obligated$726,093
Principal investigatorChristine Queitsch
ProgramPlant Genome Research Project
Start date04/01/2025
AbstractImproving agricultural practices to ensure food security and the supply of valuable bioproducts is vitally important for society. Agricultural practices could be improved by using biotechnology to manipulate crop traits or to replace expensive pesticides with plant-produced, affordable compounds. However, both approaches require engineering multiple genes or pathways to yield predictable outcomes. Thus far, predicting the expression in plants of synthetic genes and pathways, even those composed
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