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Carbon to Roots

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underground, reducing the amount released into the atmosphere. This research will fill three major gaps: 1. Understanding the genetic networks that control alfalfa's root system. 2. Developing deep learning methods to measure root system architecture in alfalfa. 3. Creating efficient strategies to engineer alfalfa's proteins in a dominant fashion, obtaining steeper and deeper roots bypassing homozygosity in tetraploid outcrossing alfalfa varieties. The project will use cutting-edge technologies and infrastructure and collaborate for two years with experts at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, leveraging the existing knowledge and technology in root architecture for carbon sequestration within the Harnessing Plants Initiative to achieve these goals. The knowledge acquired at Salk will be used in the final project year, when selected alfalfa varieteis will be transformed and regenerated in Denmark, at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences of Copenhagen University, using the alfalfa tissue culture expertise of the research fellow and plant transformation

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award

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SIGNED

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EU

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447706.08

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EUR