Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 10/12/20


Two professors in NC State’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology recently received a three-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue their work of 17 years unraveling how plants control DNA replication and how this influences agronomic traits. The process of copying, or replicating, the complete set of genetic material is an essential part of growing and dividing for all organisms. Since the DNA from even one corn chromosome is many times longer than the size of the cell it resides within...

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