United States of America
September 29, 2008
Source: Sunflower Highlights,
newsletter from the
National Sunflower Association
Dr. Steve Knapp of the University
of Georgia has a long professional history with sunflower. He
has been a leader in sequencing the sunflower genome or genetic
mapping.
Knapp has been recently awarded a number of grants to accelerate
his work including
- $1.2 million from USDA and
the US Department of Defense
- $500,000 from seed
companies to better develop better DNA
marker technology
- $400,000 from the USDA
Plant Genome Program and
- $600,000 from the
Binational Agriculture Research and Development Agency and
the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research to study
wild species and disease resistance.
His research as it relates to
other work at USDA and the private sector will be discussed in
detail in the next issue of
The Sunflower
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