Genetics & Genomics
Collaboration receives $3 million grant to obtain DNA sequence of Phytophthora capsici genome
Published in Biotech Business Week, January 9th, 2006
The U.S. National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), in partnership with investigators at the Ohio State University, the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the University of Tennessee, and 454 Life Sciences Corp., announced the receipt of awards totaling approximately $3 million to obtain the DNA sequence for the entire genome of a major pathogen of vegetable crops, Phytophthora capsici.
Awards were granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-CSREES, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the DOE Community Sequencing Program.
Phytophthora capsici, a fungus-like oomycete, is a devastating pathogen of vegetable...
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