Project Grant 2525780
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette, Missouri. The grant, awarded on March 1, 2025 with a completion date of February 29, 2028, will fund research to dissect the molecular mechanisms that control spikelet development and inflorescence architecture in panicoid cereal crops like corn, wheat and rice. The project leverages the model plant Setaria...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette, Missouri. The grant supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TR-TECH-PGR / PLANTSYNBIO: INTRAGENIC GENOME ENGINEERING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF IMPROVED PLANTS" project from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The project aims to develop new biotechnology tools for intragenic genome engineering to rapidly...
- This $804,525 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research exploring the epigenetic mechanisms by which ultraviolet B radiation alters DNA methylation patterns in plants. Specifically, the University of Missouri-St. Louis will investigate how UVB exposure and its photoreceptor interact to change locus- and tissue-specific DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana, and how...
- 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 $1,242,385 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research at the University of Missouri System to coordinate plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. The research aims to understand how plants prioritize and integrate signals from diverse environmental stresses like low nutrient availability and bacterial pathogens. A team of researchers with expertise in iron nutrition, bacterial pathogen responses, cellular biology,...
- This federal Project Grant award of $1,192,499.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Missouri to develop epigenetic editing tools for crop improvement. The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: 1) Expand epigenetic editing technologies to other crop species beyond cassava, such as rice and tomato, to enable disease resistance; 2) Demonstrate additional applications of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $206,320 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center for the period of May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research to develop an artificial chromosome system in Chlamydomonas based on CENH3 tethering under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's...
- This federal Project Grant award of $1,115,181.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program will support research by The Washington University in University City, Missouri to investigate the role of biomolecular condensates in nutrient signaling and epigenome dynamics in Arabidopsis plants. The goal is to enhance understanding of how plants use these microscale compartments to sense their environment and reprogram their epigenomes to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $179,150 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of June 15, 2022 through May 31, 2024. The award will support the development of new computational tools and methods to translate single-cell RNA sequencing data into an ultra-high resolution 3D spatial map of gene expression in plant roots. Specifically, the grantee will leverage existing fluorescent...
- This federal Project Grant award of $2,470,050.59 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) was provided to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette, Missouri. The funding supports a research project titled "LINKING MOLECULAR, BIOCHEMICAL AND PHENOTYPIC RESPONSES TO THE ENVIRONMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE, STRESS RESILIENT BIOENERGY SORGHUM" with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program has awarded a $1,606,828 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette, Missouri. The grant, entitled "EDGE CMT: EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF HEAT STRESS MEMORY IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC CELLS," aims to investigate the mechanisms by which photosynthetic organisms, such as green algae, develop short-term stress memory and improved thermotolerance in response to repeated high temperature exposures. The research will leverage the fast growth, simple genome, and relatedness to land plants of the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to elucidate the epigenetic regulation underlying this acquired heat stress tolerance. The project, running from December 2025 to November 2028, will also support educational and outreach activities to engage a broad range of researchers and the public on topics of plant stress response and resilience.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.6m | 8/14/25 |