Year Awarded 2017
FFAR award amount $1,000,000
Total award amount $2,320,000
Location Davis, CA
Matching Funders UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Structural Genomics Consortium, AgBiome and Promega
Grantee Institution University of California Davis
Drought is a significant concern for farmers, especially rice growers. University of California, Davis researchers are studying genes responsible for drought tolerance in rice. The project is developing and implementing a screening strategy to identify new gene that effect root traits and drought tolerance in rice.