Harro Bouwmeester, Chair of Plant Hormone Biology at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences at the University of Amsterdam receives for the proposal “The Engineering of low germination stimulant production to control witchweed infection in maize in Sub-Saharan Africa” the ERC Proof of Concept Grant. Congratulations.
The ERC PoC Grants aim at maximising the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. More information can be found here.