This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) project grant of $491,037 awarded to The Colorado College will investigate how nitrogen availability influences photosynthesis, growth, and nitrogen cycling in diverse Neotropical bromeliad plants. The 3-year project will conduct interdisciplinary research combining experimental studies, morphology, ecophysiology, ecology, and genomics to understand how nitrogen scarcity impacts bromeliad physiology, resource...
This is a $578,748 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Connecticut. The grant supports collaborative research to investigate how nitrogen availability influences photosynthesis, growth, and nitrogen cycling in the diverse Neotropical bromeliad plants. The key objectives are to: 1) examine the physiological and molecular responses to nitrogen limitation in bromeliad species with different...
This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research on the evolution and development of fundamental plant reproductive structures called sporangia. Led by the New York Botanical Garden, this interdisciplinary project will investigate the molecular genetics of sporangium development in the model fern Ceratopteris. The research aims to elucidate the core genetic network underlying sporangium...
The New York Botanical Garden received a $629,237 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 15, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2025. Under the grant, the Botanical Garden will mobilize underrepresented Asian herbarium collections in the United States to advance biodiversity discovery. Specifically, the Garden will digitize herbarium specimens to make them more accessible online for research purposes. This work will help propel biodiversity studies by allowing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $799,458 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) for the 3-year period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund collaborative research to integrate plant traits, phylogenies, and distributional data to forecast the risks and resilience of North American plant communities in response to climate and land use changes. The...
The New York Botanical Garden was awarded a $299,754 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Under this award, the New York Botanical Garden will utilize artificial intelligence to accelerate plant...
This $299,551 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Colorado State University to evaluate the impacts of plant biodiversity on the productivity of grasslands and forests across the United States. The project will use remote sensing technologies and field-based observations to characterize different facets of biodiversity and quantify their relationships with primary productivity. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Boyce Thompson Institute For Plant Research Inc. a $1,007,308 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The award will support research to identify components of the unique carbon-concentrating mechanism in hornworts, characterize the hornwort carbon-fixing enzyme rubisco housed within organelles called...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $231,060 over 5 years to Lewis & Clark College to research the long-term dynamics of tropical forest regeneration across sites in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, and Panama. The project aims to understand how variations in environmental conditions and climate patterns, including seasonality and multi-year cycles, impact the timing and success of plant...
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 federal Project Grant award of $340,546 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project led by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) to investigate how nitrogen availability influences the physiology, growth, and nitrogen cycling of tropical bromeliads. The project will test the connections between nitrogen limitation, photosynthetic pathways, and functional traits in these diverse epiphytic plants. The research will engage an interdisciplinary team spanning botanical gardens, a liberal arts college, and a research university to train a new generation of scientists in collaborative, greenhouse-based research with conservation applications in Florida. No sub-awards are planned for this award, which has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2027.