Ontario Invests $3.2 Million in Genomics Research
May 22, 2009| |
Two genomics projects at the University of Guelph have received $3.2 million (USD 2.8 million) in funding from the province of Ontario. The bulk of the funding will support a project that aims to develop corn varieties that require less fertilizer and water. Steven Rothstein and colleagues from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology will pinpoint genes that regulate nutrient uptake so they can improve plants' efficiency in absorbing and using nitrogen. "Nitrogen fertilizers are one of the largest input costs for farmers and a very significant source of pollution from crop agriculture," said Rothstein. The project is also supported by Syngenta.
The Guelph University-based Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) will also receive funding to help support a technology development project for scanning biodiversity in environmental samples using next-generation DNA sequencing approaches. BIO leads an international project that aims to record the DNA barcodes of more than half-million plant and animal species in the next five years.
The complete article is available at http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/05/province_invest_3.html
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