Project Grant 2545757
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Missouri System received a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. This award funds basic research investigating the genomic basis of heterosis (hybrid vigor) in major crop species. The research project will test the "Genomic Balance Hypothesis," which...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Missouri System received a $654,638 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded August 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative investigates how global change agents—including carbon dioxide levels, temperature, water availability, nitrogen deposition, and wildfire—interact to affect seed...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Missouri System received a $228,454 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) awarded June 1, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative investigates the convergent evolution of inflated calyces and acylsugar chemical defenses in the tomatillo tribe (Physalideae). The project will produce a comprehensive phylogenetic tree...
- 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 research initiative investigates biomolecular condensates in Arabidopsis plants to understand how these microscale cellular compartments sense environmental signals and reprogram epigenomes in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $471,311 to the University of Missouri System under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a three-year project grant (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028). The project investigates Barbara McClintock's discovery of a "tiny fragment" chromosome and its "X component," which catalyzes genomic rearrangements in maize. The research employs molecular...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $846,276 project grant to the University of Missouri System under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research titled "Regulation of the Early Steps of Wound-Activated Jasmonate Biosynthesis." The two-year project beginning January 15, 2022 and ending December 31, 2024 aims to advance understanding of plant defense responses to wounding through investigation of the early enzymatic steps in jasmonate...
- 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,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded the University of Nebraska a $769,792 Project Grant effective August 15, 2025, through July 31, 2028, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This research initiative focuses on identifying and characterizing pathogen effector proteins secreted during plant-pathogen interactions, with particular emphasis on fungal pathogens such as Magnaporthe oryzae that threaten...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Missouri System received a $299,931 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) awarded February 1, 2026, with a completion date of January 31, 2028. The research initiative investigates the biochemical and genetic mechanisms underlying seedling ferulate ester (SFE) mutants in maize, which exhibit enhanced...
- This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $626,850 supports research to develop a holistic understanding of plant cuticle assembly through synthetic biology approaches. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grantee—the University of Nebraska—will engineer yeast and plant root systems lacking natural cuticles to model cuticle metabolism pathways. Researchers will refactor transcriptional networks and metabolic processes to produce synthetic cuticle...
The University of Missouri System received a $114,909 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) awarded May 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2026. This collaborative research initiative focuses on deciphering plant cuticle development through synthetic biology approaches. The project will engineer two novel synthetic biology systems—yeast cells and plant roots—to build a functional cuticle from scratch, thereby comprehensively modeling and quantitatively understanding the integrated biochemical pathways and transcriptional regulatory networks underlying this protective plant feature. By systematically refactoring cuticle assembly mechanisms, the research aims to generate fundamental knowledge applicable to breeding crop plants with customized, stress-resistant cuticles and developing cuticle-inspired chemicals for the biorenewables industry. Beyond direct research outcomes, the project emphasizes workforce development and diversity initiatives, with explicit goals to train next-generation multidisciplinary scientists and build teaching and research programs designed to increase representation of individuals from STEM-underrepresented backgrounds in the scientific workforce. The award supports a multidisciplinary effort that addresses critical knowledge gaps in understanding how plants construct protective barriers, with potential applications spanning agricultural improvement and industrial biotechnology sectors.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $114.9k | 8/18/25 |