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Danforth Center

NSF Awards $10M in EDGE Program Grants

The program was established to support the development and dissemination of functional genomic tools and techniques for genome manipulation in model organisms.

With Single-Molecule Sequencing, Researchers Generate Near-Complete Grass Genome

Researchers sequenced the desiccation-tolerant grass, Oropetium thomaeum, and analyzed its repetitive sequences.

Kultevat Licenses Plant Gene Expression Technology from Danforth Plant Science Center

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Kultevat today said it has exclusively licensed technology to control plant gene expression from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

Danforth Center to Participate in $20M NSF-funded Climate Research Collaboration

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced on Tuesday that it is part of a collaborative research project that was awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of climate variability, an effort that will include gen

Danforth Center Leads $12M DOE Bioenergy Study

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A research group led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis will use a $12.1 million grant from the US Department of Energy to conduct genomics-driven research to develop and improve a grass that could be an important bioenergy crop.