Michigan State University Newsroom - MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions: "EAST LANSING, Mich. ? A collaboration of Michigan State University researchers will use a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to uncover the functions of genes in a plant � research which may ultimately lead to improvements in human health and agriculture.
In a collaborative effort spanning several departments, MSU scientists will determine the functions of roughly 4,400 nuclear genes from the Arabidopsis plant. Arabidopsis is a flowering plant whose entire 29,000 gene sequence is known. "