Research staff with the UTIA Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

Research staff with the UTIA Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology

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The University of Tennessee Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology will conduct new research into the possible use of potato plants as sensory platforms to detect environmental threats. Announced in September 2018, the new Center is already staffed. Shown from rear to front are Taylor Frazier-Douglas, a postdoctoral member of the research team, as well as Holly Brabazon, research associate, and Jessica Layton, an undergraduate in plant sciences.

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