Danforth Center receives $934,000 NSF grant
September 2007
From Sacramento Business Journal with additional detail on Jackson
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced it received a $934,996 grant from the National Science Foundation to study soil fertility and plant uptake of essential nutrients.
The grant was awarded to the team of Drs. Daniel Schachtman and Brad Barbazuk at the Danforth Center and Louise Jackson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. A faculty member in the Department of Land Air and Water Resources, Jackson is the John B. Orr Endowed Chair in Environmental Plant Sciences. Her work is focused on using and conserving biodiversity within agricultural ecosystems, reducing the impacts on wildland ecosystems, and developing policies for sustaining biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. She is a member of the UC Davis Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) project team.
The team will use genomics tools to learn more about how roots function to take up essential minerals from soils, according to a release. It is hoped the results of the research project will give a better understanding of strategies that may be used for agricultural management and crop breeding.
St. Louis-based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a not-for-profit research institute that was founded in 1998 with a global vision to improve the human condition through plant science.
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