A team of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) researchers committed to combating the global population’s micronutrient deficiency have been awarded $600,000 by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The grant will support the advancement of a project called the “Enhanced Production of Beneficial Secondary Metabolites in Specialty Crops: Elucidating the Role of Agriculturally Relevant Metallic Oxide Nanoparticles.”
The goal of this interdisciplinary project – led by Laura Carson, Ph.D., a research scientist in PVAMU’s Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC), and her team of investigators from PVAMU and Texas A&M University – is to enhance the nutritional value in edible leafy green vegetables necessary to overcome “hidden hunger” (the presence of multiple micronutrient deficiencies) using metallic-based nanoparticles.
The goal of this interdisciplinary project – led by Laura Carson, Ph.D., a research scientist in PVAMU’s Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC), and her team of investigators from PVAMU and Texas A&M University – is to enhance the nutritional value in edible leafy green vegetables necessary to overcome “hidden hunger” (the presence of multiple micronutrient deficiencies) using metallic-based nanoparticles.