SBIR/STTR Research Award
EXPRESSION OF A BACTERIAL CHITINASE GENE IN PLANTS
Award amount
$175,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Dna Plant Technologi
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE SERRATIA MARCESENS CHIB GENE BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN BIOCONTROL EXPERIMENTS. WE WILL GENETICALLY ENGINEER TOBACCO PLANTS TO EXPRESS HIGH LEVELS OF THE CHIB ENCODED CHITINASE IN LEAF TISSUE, THEN WE WILL EXAMINE WHETHER THESE TRANSFORMED PLANTS ARE RESISTANT TO INFECTION BY ALTERNARIA ALTERNARIA, THE CAUSATIVE AGENT IN TOBACCO LEAF BROWN SPOT DISEASE.
Technology keywords
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