Fighting world hunger: MU team receives $4 million NSF grant to advance crop research

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Developing drought-tolerant corn varieties that make efficient use of available water is vital to sustain the estimated 9 billion global population by 2050. For the past several decades, University of Missouri researchers have been working to solve this world hunger problem and have made significant strides. Now, the National Science Foundation has awarded MU a $4.2 million grant to fund a four-year project to study how corn maintains root growth in drought cond...