Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Amount
$285,957.00
Award Date
9/18/2009
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
Innate immune mechanisms are conserved in evolution. The NPR1 protein of Arabidopsis is a master regulator of gene expression in plant defense. Similar to the mammalian immuno- regulator NF-kB, the NPR1 protein is nuclear translocated upon induction. In t