Structure-guided Protein Engineering to Generate New Versions of Stevia
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Organization
UNC - Wilmington
Award Date
Award Amount
18,945
Program Name
Flash Grant
Program Category
Research and Equipment Support
Principal Investigator
Soon Goo Lee
Fiscal Year
2020
Region
Southeastern
Project Description:
Researchers at UNC-Wilmington will re-engineer key enzymes in Stevia, a plant that makes a natural non-calorie sweetener, to generate new versions of the noncaloric sweetener.