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This three-year, $1.8 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems aims to develop rapid transformation and gene editing techniques in maize through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The University of Missouri System will work to establish a system for precisely inserting transgenes and editing genes at predetermined sites in the genome of maize. Researchers will create "landing pads" on five chromosomes of a...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $2,000,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) for a project titled "Unlocking the Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Cereal Crop Adaptation to Acidic Soil Regions." The project aims to identify genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that contribute to aluminum (Al) tolerance in major cereal crops like maize and sorghum, which is crucial for improving crop resilience...

This $172,466 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at San Diego State University to improve rice cultivation practices and reduce arsenic uptake. The collaborative research team from Columbia University, Union College, and San Diego State University (serving as the awardee) will conduct field work in Cambodia and Texas from January 2023 to December 2025....

This $250,000 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research to improve rice cultivation practices and reduce arsenic uptake in rice crops. The goal is to develop a mechanistic understanding of environmental factors controlling arsenic solubility and speciation in rice paddy soils. A multidisciplinary team from Columbia University, Union College, and San Diego State University will fuse frequent soil geochemistry, mineralogy, microbiology and hydrology...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA #81.135 provides $1,297,055 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop a high biomass, fast growing, non-food crop as a nickel hyperaccumulator with more than 30 mg/g dry biomass nickel. The project, titled "Camelina Sativa for Hyperaccumulation of Nickel (CASH-NI)", aims to simultaneously produce biofuels on serpentine and ultramafic soils. The award...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program grant awarded to Cornell University will investigate the role of the micronutrient copper in regulating auxin metabolism and signaling, which are critical for plant reproduction and grain yield. The $299,974 grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will employ functional genetics and genomic tools to explore the relationship between copper, auxin, and reproductive development in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will support collaborative research at Kansas State University to identify the genetic basis of plant regeneration, specifically focusing on maize. The $400,000 award will fund the project from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The primary goal is to better understand the genetic mechanisms controlling plant cell proliferation and growth, which are critical for successful...

This $322,020 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems will support collaborative research at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to develop improved methods for CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing in maize. The key objectives are to generate maize lines expressing high levels of Cas9 nuclease and to engineer and optimize viral vectors to efficiently deliver guide RNAs for both somatic and heritable gene editing. This...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $169,044 awarded January 1, 2023 through the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research to improve rice cultivation practices and reduce arsenic uptake. A collaborative team from Union College, Columbia University, and San Diego State University will conduct field work in Cambodia and Texas to better understand how climate, irrigation, fertilization and other environmental factors control redox gradients in rice paddy soils. They will...

This $836,100 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to enhance understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying the bacterial wilt disease that affects cucurbit crops like cucumbers and melons. The key objectives are to screen and characterize disease resistance traits in diverse cucumber and melon populations, and leverage this knowledge to develop sustainable management strategies for this critical agricultural...