Primary Recipient

MISSOURI SYSTEM, UNIVERSITY OF

Amount

$737,699.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Intellectual merit: Pseudomonas syringae is a bacterial pathogen that infects many important crop plants as well as the model plant Arabidopsis. During infection, P. syringae expresses a number of virulence genes that allow it to colonize and survive in p