Project Grant 1615557

This $445,676 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Rutgers University, Camden investigating the role of the plant hormone abscisic acid in stomatal formation using a drought-tolerant mutant plant. The goal is to gain new insights into how drought controls stomatal numbers to improve plant drought tolerance. Four undergraduate students from underserved communities will conduct much of the research under faculty mentorship. The students will also help develop a new...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program project grant to Yale University is focused on advancing understanding of stomatal regulation and photosynthesis in plants. The $258,877 award, running from February 2024 to January 2027, will employ a new laser-based technique to directly measure guard cell turgor pressure and elucidate the mechanisms controlling stomatal opening and closing across diverse plant lineages. This research aims to reveal fundamental biophysical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $759,465 in funding to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on the molecular mechanisms of stomatal CO2 signal transduction in plants. The research aims to identify proteins and genes of a recently discovered CO2 sensor in order to determine the cellular signaling processes through which carbon dioxide regulates plant water loss and CO2 intake. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $455,612 to Purdue University to conduct collaborative research on the evolution of guard cell turgor and the rise of angiosperms. The research aims to develop a new method to directly measure guard cell turgor pressures across different plant lineages, in order to better understand the regulation of stomatal opening and closing in response to environmental stresses...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $850,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to investigate the cellular and biomechanical mechanisms underlying rapid stomatal dynamics in grasses. This research aims to enhance understanding of how the microscopic pores called stomata, which regulate photosynthesis and water transport in crops, rapidly open and close in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $192,052 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to investigate the cellular and biomechanical mechanisms of rapid stomatal dynamics in grasses. The project will utilize molecular genetics, cell biology, computer vision, mechanical testing, and computational modeling techniques to gain a better understanding of how...

Northeastern State University (NSU) was awarded a $126,044 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences to conduct collaborative research on the cellular and biomechanical mechanisms of rapid stomatal dynamics in grasses. This 3-year grant, which commenced on August 15, 2023, will support an interdisciplinary investigation into how the stomata (microscopic pores) in grass crops like maize and wheat rapidly open and close to regulate...

This Project Grant award from the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at Michigan State University (MSU) to investigate the molecular mechanisms regulating early root growth in plants in response to phosphate (P) deficiency. The key objectives of this $907,847 award, with a period of performance from June 2024 to May 2027, are to: 1) determine the transcriptional and...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems totals $671,563 to support research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the mechanism of trehalose control of shoot development in plants. The goals of the research are to investigate the structural organization and coordination of enzymatic complexes involved in trehalose-6-phosphate (T6P) metabolism and signaling pathways that regulate plant growth processes. By providing insights...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $439,507 will fund research at the University of California, Berkeley to uncover the genetic basis of specialized vascular function in maize plants. Principal Investigators Leiboff of Oregon State University and Chuck of UC Berkeley will apply single-cell genomics, mutant mapping, and machine learning techniques to identify genes regulating specialized vein development and physiology. Their work aims to improve maize's resilience to...