T-STAR Grant
Funds Genetic Studies and Endangered Cycad Rescue (Jun
26, 2009) University of Guam. Western Pacific Tropical Research Center.
The University of
Guam's Western Pacific Tropical Research
Center (WPTRC) was awarded $510,165 in T-STAR grant
funds from USDA. T-STAR (Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture Research) is a
special grant program explicitly for research that enhances the development
of sound tropical and subtropical agricultural
practices including value-added product development and the control of diseases,
insects, weeds, and invasive species. The projects funded will serve aquaculture
and papaya farmers as well as work toward the preservation
of an endemic cycad species endangered due to attacks by several species
of invasive insects.
