FAMU gets $800K grant for genetic fruit program
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida A&M's school of engineering sciences, technology and agriculture has been awarded a nearly $800,000 grant.
The funding announced this weekend comes from the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. The university says the money will go toward a bio-security research project and the development of a genetic raspberry improvement program.
Bobby R. Phills, coordinator of the Small Fruit Program, says FAMU is the first land-grant institution in the state that has received funding for a raspberry breeding program conducted in Florida and the southern region of the United States.
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