This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $300,000 in funding to Western University of Health Sciences to conduct collaborative research on the variability and regulation of the plant polyadenylation complex. The research aims to better understand how this complex mediates gene expression and plant responses to environmental and developmental cues, with the goal of improving our knowledge of crop plant growth,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,720,000 project grant to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Research-PGR: Genome-Wide Quest for Non-Host Resistance Mechanisms in Plants." Over a three-year period ending December 2026, the university will conduct research to elucidate the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying non-host resistance in plants against fungal pathogens....
This Project Grant award of $673,114 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project investigating the role of extracellular RNA (exRNA) produced by plants and its potential function in plant immune systems. The project aims to: 1) determine how plants secrete RNA and identify conserved exRNAs across diverse plant species, 2) assess whether post-transcriptional modifications are required for exRNA secretion,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $750,000 to the University of Missouri System from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research among multiple institutions to elucidate the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying nonhost resistance in plants. Nonhost resistance confers broad immunity to most plant species against pathogens that can infect other species. The research aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to The Pennsylvania State University, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support research to improve understanding of the symbiotic relationship between legume plants and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria. The $310,000 grant, awarded on September 1, 2023 for a 3-year period, will fund an integrative approach to identify the specific plant and bacterial genes that work together to control the efficiency of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Role of Vegetative Development on Plant Response to Environmental Stress from Genomic and Physiological Perspectives" from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2025 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The three-year award will fund postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia exploring how plant vegetative development influences responses to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $974,951 project grant to Stanford University from March 2021 through February 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research into the molecular mechanisms that enhance systemic immunity in plants. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding of major issues through basic research. This award supports those goals by exploring how plants strengthen defenses throughout...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant of $600,000 awarded to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska aims to identify the specific antimicrobial molecules produced by the bacterium Pseudomonas protegens PBL3 and understand how they inhibit the growth of the plant pathogen Burkholderia glumae, which causes bacterial panicle blight in rice. The project combines multidisciplinary approaches including genetics, comparative genomics,...
This $999,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to elucidate the mechanisms initiating de novo chromatin modification cycles in plant cells. Over three years, the award will support experiments using cutting-edge techniques to dissect the molecular triggers establishing heritable DNA methylation patterns and long-term epigenetic silencing of transposable elements and...
This $322,925 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Gustavus Adolphus College to characterize stress-responsive peptides from long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana. The project aims to explore the functional role of 20 newly identified small peptides in plant development and response to environmental stressors, with the goal of identifying potential targets for crop improvement. The...