Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE

Amount

$750,000.00

Award Date

2/22/2012

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacterium that also serves as the most widely utilized vector for transferring DNA to plant cells. However, exactly how DNA and proteins are transported out of the bacterial cell and into the plant cell remains unclear. Ge