Dr. Eric Josephs (Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering) received new funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
The researchers will experimentally validate new molecular tools that they computationally predict could dramatically accelerate the production of crop variants with targeted genetic modifications (‘precision breeding’) to address future agricultural challenges. They expect the tools will be especially potent in important NC crops like tomato, sweet potato, tobacco, soybean, and cereals.
