Project Grant 2544734
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $1.1M to the University of California, Davis under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct fundamental research investigating how cytokinin hormonal signaling regulates cell plate development and callose deposition during plant cell division. The project, which commenced August 1, 2025, and concludes July 31, 2028, will deliver mechanistic insights into...
- Summary of Federal Project Grant Award The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $803,522 to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct a five-year CAREER research project running from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. This project will deliver fundamental research advancing scientific understanding of root system productivity and belowground ecosystem processes in grassland environments. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded $700,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on September 1, 2025, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a three-year collaborative research initiative titled "Elucidating and Manipulating Carbon Metabolic Niches in Soil Microbiomes Using Synthetic Communities for Sustainable Agriculture." The primary deliverables include scientific research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Dartmouth College $850,435 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for collaborative research addressing plant organ development through genome-wide characterization of evolutionarily conserved signaling modules. The five-year project, which commenced June 1, 2025 and concludes May 31, 2030, investigates how sulfated peptides and their receptor-like kinase interactions orchestrate plant organ formation....
- Federal Grant Award Summary The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $222,026 Project Grant from the Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) (CFDA 10.310) on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 14, 2027. This research initiative characterizes plant-bacteria interactions at the cellular and molecular level to enhance crop resilience under drought stress. The project employs advanced microscopy and...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $500,000 to the California Institute of Technology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on May 15, 2025, for a collaborative research initiative extending through April 30, 2028. This project merges metabolomics and isotope biogeochemistry methodologies to develop and validate a novel algorithm for quantifying metabolic carbon fluxes in environmental...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $425,116 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This research initiative, titled "PlantTransform: Defining the Mechanisms Responsible for the Recalcitrance of Cultivated Sunflower to Transformation and Tissue Regeneration," aims to...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Cornell University received a $1,010,190 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2031. This CAREER award will deliver fundamental research examining how plants regulate the heat resistance of carbon fixation through differential expression of Rubisco (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) small...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded The Washington University a Project Grant totaling $1,115,181 (Award Date: July 1, 2025; Completion Date: June 30, 2028) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This award funds fundamental research investigating the molecular mechanisms by which plants utilize biomolecular condensates to sense environmental stimuli and reprogram their epigenomes in response to...
The California Institute of Technology received a $1.23M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded June 1, 2026, with a completion date of May 31, 2031. This CAREER award funds fundamental research to elucidate how plants coordinate growth and differentiation across tissues using Arabidopsis thaliana roots as a model system. The research will examine tissue-specific hormone signaling and the molecular and mechanical feedback mechanisms between neighboring cell layers that maintain coordinated organ development. By identifying the signals that regulate inter-tissue communication during root growth, the project will advance understanding of multicellular plant development and provide foundational knowledge for precision plant engineering strategies to enhance crop productivity. In addition to research deliverables, the award supports an integrated education and training program including development of a new undergraduate research course in plant biology, a high school outreach initiative in plant genome engineering, and a professional training workshop on single-cell and spatial methods in plant biology. These educational components are designed to expand workforce development in plant biology and expand training opportunities across undergraduate and secondary education levels.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.2m | 5/5/26 |