International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Grant

Organization - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Grant Amount - $645,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of developing and disseminating herbicide-resistant maize seed coated with specific herbicides that inhibit the growth of the parasitic weed Striga


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Kenyatta University - $144,900 from the Rockefeller Foundation - to develop African maize resistant to the parasitic weed Striga, in a collaborative project with the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis - $108,100 from the Rockefeller Foundation - to develop African maize resistant to the parasitic weed Striga, in a collaborative project with Kenyatta University

Purdue University - $190,592 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of research to assess the value of transgenic maize engineered to create resistance to the parasitic weed Striga

Kenyatta University - $450,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for continued support of a project to develop African maize and sorghum resistant to weed Striga, in collaboration with the University of California, Davis

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