A University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) startup founded more than a decade ago to help develop and market disease resistant dogwood trees continues to thrive. Creative Agricultural Technologies, LLC (CAT) licenses patented and unpatented disease-resistant dogwood trees for production and sale to wholesale growers. To address the growing problem of exotic pathogens attacking dogwoods, (read more)
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UTRF Executes a Non-Exclusive License Agreement with Amfora Inc. for Plant-Based Promoter Technology
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has executed a non-exclusive license agreement with Amfora, Inc. for a plant-based promoter technology developed by Neal Stewart Jr., Ph.D., professor of plant sciences and Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in Plant Molecular Genetics at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. This promoter has been shown to (read more)
UTRF Inventors, Shigetoshi Eda and Jayne Wu Featured in UT Ag Research Article
New Ventures | Rapid Diagnostic Test Reduces Testing Time and Increases Accuracy Article by: UT Ag Research A new device, developed by Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Professor Shigetoshi Eda and Dr. Jayne Wu, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, aims to reduce disease diagnosis time. Eda, who originally joined UTIA in (read more)