Purpose
to engineer a plant virus to express genes that will initiate RNA silencing in the sweet potato feather mottle virus, one of the most damaging crop viruses in Africa.
Grantee
Division
Global Growth & Opportunity
Date
MAY 2012
Region served
GLOBAL
Committed amount
$100,000
Grant topic
Agricultural Development
Duration (months)
18
Grantee location
Aas, Norway
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