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ENGINEERING CLIMATE SMART CROPS THROUGH DNA NANO-DELIVERY AND SPEED-BREEDING TECHNIQUES

Objective

1. To create climate smart plants with deep roots with higher tolerance to heat stress and capable of sequestering CO2 in deeper soils,2. To investigate the use of nanoparticles as a novel delivery system for genetic materials into plant,3. To investigate the combination of nano-delivery along with biolistic approach (delivery of DNA using particle bombardment) in improving the DNA delivery into plant cells, and4. To combine speed breeding protocol with plant transformation approach, for accelerating plant maturity and recovery of homologous T2 plants.

Investigators
Taheri, A.; Dumenyo, KO, .; Wu, YI, .; He, GU, .; Rakshit, SU, .; Landry, MA, .
Institution
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Start date
2023
End date
2026
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
TENX2022-09591
Accession number
1030266
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1030266.html