Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$150,000.00

Award Date

7/13/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Chloroplast differentiation, as a vital part of the photomorphogenetic program in plants, is to establish photosynthetic plastids that enable plants for photoautotrophic growth in the light. This process is tightly controlled by environmental light cues,