Project Grant 20236701339413
Award Date 5/1/23
Completion Date 4/30/27
Dollars Obligated $649K
Federal Agency
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Similar Awards
- The University of California, Riverside received a $180,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year award will support research examining the genetic regulatory networks controlling the development of suberized transport barriers in rice root cells, which show plasticity in response to water stress. Understanding these networks...
- 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 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 $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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $613,292 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside for the TRILATERAL FPP 2023 project titled "FLORESENG - Engineering Endogenous Oxygen Sensing for Improved Flood Resilience in Cereals." The three-year project, effective from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, delivers fundamental research aimed at...
- This $249,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of computational and experimental tools to engineer gene expression in rice. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award supports a postdoctoral fellowship held by David Ding at the University of California, Berkeley from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The fellow will create a pipeline to understand regulatory mutations in plants at scale, coupled with high-throughput experimental assays. A...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $503,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to study the roles of RNA modifications in regulating responses to abiotic stresses like drought and heat in cereal crops. The project aims to identify novel regulatory mechanisms and new targets for improving drought and heat tolerance in crops like sorghum, maize, rice,...
- This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $1,342,282 to Texas Tech University to conduct collaborative research unraveling the origin of vegetative desiccation tolerance in vascular plants. The research team will seek to identify genes that act as master regulators of desiccation tolerance by comparing the dynamic responses of green tissues and seeds in desiccation-tolerant and sensitive plants. Specifically, the...
- 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 $1,242,385 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research at the University of Missouri System to coordinate plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. The research aims to understand how plants prioritize and integrate signals from diverse environmental stresses like low nutrient availability and bacterial pathogens. A team of researchers with expertise in iron nutrition, bacterial pathogen responses, cellular biology,...