UMD IBBR awarded DOE grant to investigate how to protect biofuel crop poplar trees from disease

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By mmillikinJan 30, 2018, 5:00 am197 pts
The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop.…

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