Project Grant DESC0026121
- 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...
- This federal Project Grant award of $1,915,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research at the University of Georgia Research Foundation to decode the function of glycosyltransferases in the sorghum plant. The research will utilize high-throughput biochemical, nuclear magnetic resonance, and computational biology methods to better understand the biological role of these enzymes in sorghum, an important bioenergy and...
- 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 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, awarded a $1,602,854 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. The grant, titled "Genome-Wide Identification of Microexons and Their Alternative Splicing to Advance Knowledge on Gene Functions and Regulation in Sorghum Stress Responses," aims to conduct fundamental scientific research on sorghum plant genomics and stress responses. The...
- 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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $2,379,217 to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025. The grant supports research to develop targeted DNA integration techniques in plants. Specifically, the Center and its sub-awardees—the University of South Carolina Aiken Campus and University of Missouri—will work to engineer hyperactive versions of the Pong transposase proteins and...
- 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 (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...
- The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Verinomics, Inc. in Hamden, CT under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on February 12, 2024, will support the development of a transgene-free gene editing platform for bioenergy crops. This project aims to advance scientific understanding and innovative technologies aligned with DOE's mission of delivering scientific discoveries and tools to transform energy,...
- 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 Project Grant award of $5,750,435.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette, Missouri. The funding supports a research project titled "DISSECTING THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF C4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CARBON PARTITIONING IN SORGHUM" with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding of the regulatory mechanisms underlying C4 photosynthesis and carbon partitioning in sorghum, a key bioenergy crop. The Department of Energy's Office of Science is the Nation's largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, supporting transformative scientific discoveries and technological innovations to address energy challenges.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $5.8m | 9/30/25 |