Congratulations to Dr. Shunyuan Xiao IBBR Fellow and Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture at University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Xiao is leading a multi-institutional collaborative research team to discover mechanisms underlying non-host resistance (NHR). This project's goal is to improve crop resistance against aggressive pathogens, as globally, approximately 15% of crop losses are attributed to fungal pathogens.
The four year $2.7M grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded for the project entitled, “Research-PGR: Genome-wide quest for non-host resistance mechanisms in plants," and includes Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Bing Yang, Professor, University of Missouri; Dr. Yiping Qi, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park; and Dr. Hemayet Ullah, Associate Professor, Howard University.
Read the full article about this project on IBBR's website via the link below.
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