A world-first effort to build an artificial chromosome entirely from scratch in plants has received more than $12 million in funding from the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) through its Synthetic Plants program.
An international team of researchers, including P4S Chief Investigator Professor Ryan Lister and P4S Research Fellow Dr James Lloyd from the University of Western Australia, will join collaborators from the University of Cambridge, biotech company Phytoform Labs and the Australian Genome Foundry at Macquarie University, to pioneer technologies to design, build and install synthetic chromosomes in plants.
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