Source:  NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 7/2/21


Activation domains and transcription factors may sound like terms from a science fiction movie, but they’re actually the focus of a new research project that could ultimately help our crops more readily adapt to the effects of climate change.  

This project, jointly conducted by NC State, Duke, and UC Berkeley, will be supported through a new $3.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.  Ross Sozzani, associate professor at NC State’s Plant and Microbial Biology Department and one of the principal investigators on the grant, says the project could lead to new methods for engineering genes in plants, allowing scientists to manipulate gene expression by way of special proteins called transcription factors.

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