Primary Recipient

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Amount

$34,121.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

RNA silencing is an innate antiviral defense mechanism in plants that works primarily to decrease expression of viral proteins through RNA degradation. In an effort to overcome RNA silencing, plant viruses encode RNA silencing suppressor proteins. In rece