Project Grant 20256701244546
- This $506,900 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of California, Davis to understand the molecular mechanisms of plant immune response to herbivore-associated peptide elicitors. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2022 will leverage a newly discovered pattern recognition receptor in common beans, INR, to quantify its contribution to overall herbivore defense against caterpillars. Researchers will...
- This $1,145,609 Project Grant, awarded on September 15, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program, supports research into the mechanism and manipulation of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors in plants. The project, led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, aims to investigate how the potato NLR protein RB interacts with pathogen effector proteins and plant immune signaling components, and how some pathogen strains...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $921,054 supports research to develop new biological functions through engineering plant hormone receptors. Led by the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the project engineers plant sensors to recognize pharmaceuticals and dietary molecules. It then uses these sensors to design "sentinel cells" that indicate molecule presence through color changes. Specifically, the...
- This Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), will support research aimed at understanding plant immune recognition and response to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. The $958,480 award to the University of California, Berkeley, will fund a 3-year project to investigate how wild tomato plants recognize the pathogen's needle-like syringe, which is used to inject effector proteins that...
- This Project Grant award of $849,999 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) supports research to understand how the plant immune system regulates assembly of the leaf microbiome and how the microbiome modulates plant health and resistance to pathogens, using rice and bacterial blight as a model system. Key objectives include identifying rice genes that influence leaf microbiome assembly during disease...
- This three-year $1,404,082 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research at the University of Washington to understand the molecular mechanisms of plant immune responses to herbivore-associated elicitors. The research will leverage a newly discovered pattern recognition receptor in common beans, INR, which detects inceptin found in caterpillar oral secretions. The project will quantify INR's contribution to herbivore...
- This $180,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) aims to advance the understanding of Clavibacter, a genus of gram-positive, xylem-colonizing bacteria that includes important plant pathogens. The project will identify and characterize a receptor for a Clavibacter-secreted effector, marking the discovery of the first plant receptor for a gram-positive bacterium. It will...
- This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to identify and re-engineer genes involved in environmental stress tolerance in plants. The goal is to cultivate higher-yielding, climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the food demands of a growing...
- This Project Grant award of $1,100,000 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support research at the University of California, Davis to study the genetic and chemical processes behind the diversity of specialized metabolites in plants. The project will investigate the key biosynthetic genes and modifications that create a range of glucosinolate compounds in the Brassicales plant family, which contribute to the flavors, aromas, and health benefits...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Program (CFDA 47.074) grant award to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) aims to advance the understanding of how plants recognize and respond to infection by plant parasitic nematodes, one of the most destructive plant pathogens causing an estimated $78 billion in global annual losses. The $796,385 project, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2027, will identify nematode-derived molecules that activate plant innate immunity...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310), focuses on understanding how the diversity and evolution of the CSP22 receptor affects plant immune responses. The $225,000 award, with a performance period from Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2027, aims to address key questions on how multicopy ligands impact receptor diversification, compare core receptor diversity across related receptors, assess peptide variant outcomes across plant species, and identify potential homologs that could be deployed for improved pathogen resistance. The project proposes to build machine learning tools to accelerate receptor discovery, characterize biochemical properties of convergent evolved receptors, and provide a framework on leveraging natural variation for pathogen resistance. This work will be conducted by the University of California, Berkeley.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $225.0k | 7/30/25 |