The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $12.1 million definitive contract to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The contract is for Phase I of the Advanced Plant Technologies program, which aims to develop plant varieties that can receive and respond to various stimuli through engineered biosensing capabilities. Major subcontractors include the University of Delaware, University of Arizona, University of Florida, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of California, Riverside. The work will involve developing sensor libraries for detecting chemicals of interest to the Department of Defense, modeling plant-chemical interactions, and designing light-inducible systems to potentially eliminate sensor payloads from plant varieties. The period of performance is five years in Olivette, Missouri.
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