North Carolina State University

BT Catalyst,  Oct, 1999  

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North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh will lead a multiuniversity research project to sequence and map the loblolly pine genome with a $4.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Ronald Sederoff, an NCSU geneticist, is the grant's principal investigator who will work with his local research team at a new laboratory and office complex at Centennial Campus.

Sederoff's team and researchers from other universities will map the pine tree's 80,000 genes and determine which cause the trees to grow, withstand disease and produce wood. The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has helped fund various tree genomic research projects at NCSU, and also helped recruit Sederoff through an Institutional Development Grant.

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