UTIA Researchers Receive $12 Million DARPA Contract to Bioengineer Plants to Reduce Soil Contamination
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release:
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) have received a $12 million DARPA contract to bioengineer plant-microbe communities that will clean soil contaminated by the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and report when it is no longer present. Conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech . . .
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) have received a $12 million DARPA contract to bioengineer plant-microbe communities that will clean soil contaminated by the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and report when it is no longer present. Conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech . . .