Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, partners receive $1.45 million award for plant protection in developing countries

Abstract

A research collaboration led by a professor from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech will work to develop methods to protect agriculturally important crops in developing countries from devastating attacks from plant pathogens with the support of a $1.45 million award from the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).