Project Grant 2124689

This $1,070,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research into understanding how genetic interactions in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana are influenced by environmental conditions. The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded this three-year grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison beginning July 1, 2022. The university will use artificial intelligence approaches to measure traits in hundreds of pairs of gene mutants under different temperature...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $1,004,258 provides funding from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2025 to support research into perinuclear positioning of active genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to advance understanding of gene regulation principles in eukaryotes. Specifically, the Regents of the University of California, Riverside will investigate the significance and mechanisms of perinuclear gene...

This $826,720 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of California, Riverside to investigate the mechanisms that regulate plant cell division positioning. The key objectives are to: Assess whether two proteins, TANGLED1 (TAN1) and AUXIN INDUCED IN ROOT CULTURES9 (AIR9), physically interact to mediate division plane positioning in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Characterize genetic...

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 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...

This $714,689 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds collaborative research at the University of California, Davis to decipher the molecular mechanisms of hormone-like function of terpenoids in plants. The research will characterize signaling pathways involved in plant perception of volatile organic compounds, particularly terpenoids, and their role in plant growth, development, and inter-organism interactions. It will investigate the...

This three-year, $376,264 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to develop new genetically engineered biological circuits and sensors. The University of Colorado Boulder team, led by The Regents of the University of Colorado, aims to harness plant hormone receptors to rapidly design genetic circuits controlled by user-specified ligands. They will engineer novel plant-derived chemical sensors that can recognize...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $835,320 Project Grant to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period January 15, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The grant will support research studying the mechanisms of transport through plasmodesmata in plant cells. Specifically, the grantee will examine the transport of messenger RNAs that encode homeodomain transcription factors, which are important for plant growth and stem cell...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program provides $373,728 to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with an award date of January 15, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. The objective of this collaborative research project is to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling the movement of actin filaments (F-actin) in the female gamete for successful sperm nuclear migration during plant fertilization, using...