Univ. of Missouri Gets $6.6M Grant for Corn Genetics

Mar 14, 2011

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – University of Missouri will use a $6.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study genes in corn that control the movement of carbohydrates, which could be used to make better crops for use in biofuels, the university said today.

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