This $230,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research into non-host resistance mechanisms in plants. Over its three-year period from January 2023 to December 2026, the collaborative research project will use innovative forward and reverse genetics approaches to dissect the genetic and molecular mechanisms of non-host resistance against potential fungal pathogens in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. The research aims to identify immunity genes required for non-host resistance, elucidate novel immune mechanisms, and facilitate community research and education with a focus on training underrepresented minority students. The results may help establish frameworks for non-host resistance and its connection to pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity. Howard University will perform $230k of the work.
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