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Anna Whitfield
Principal Investigator
North Carolina State University
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9 months ago
Agricultural virology, vector biology, genomics, diagnostics
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Anna Whitfield advances crop health at the plant-arthropod interface. She leads ~$1M federally funded research, holds a provisional patent for recombinant RNA viral expression vectors, and builds genomics, gene-editing and field diagnostics to limit virus transmission.
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North Carolina State University
Maize mosaic virus platform for gene expression and genome editing in maize
A plant rhabdovirus-based delivery system for high-level protein expression, Cas9 nuclease delivery, and sgRNA expression in maize. Enables targeted genome editing to improve crop resistance to biotic and abiotic stresso...
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North Carolina State University
RNAi-based targeting of yeast-like symbionts for sustainable corn planthopper pest management
A targeted pest control approach that uses gene-silencing to disrupt essential nitrogen-recycling and amino acid biosynthesis pathways in yeast-like fungal endosymbionts (YLSs) of the corn planthopper (Peregrinus maidis)...
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