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BLOCKING WEEDINESS AND FITNESS OF PALMER AMARANTH (AMARANTHUS PALMERI) IN COTTON: NEXT-GENERATION OF MOLECULAR WEED CONTROL

Objective

1) to design RNAi systems to silence target genes in Palmer amaranth2) to characterize the effect of those RNAi systems on cotton growth3) to determine dsRNA stability and persistence when exposed to different potential abiotic and biotic degradation agents.

Investigators
Leon-Gonzalez, R.; Lewis, RA, .
Institution
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV
Start date
2024
End date
2027
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
NC09974
Accession number
1031874
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1031874.html