Funding-NSF - Plant
Biotic Interactions; September 1, 2017
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that
mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their
viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts,
pathogens and pests. This joint NSF-NIFA program supports projects focused on
current and emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant
plants. The program’s scope extends from fundamental mechanisms to
translational efforts, with the latter seeking to put into agricultural
practice insights gained from basic research on the mechanisms that govern
plant biotic interactions. Projects must be strongly justified in terms of
fundamental biological processes and/or relevance to agriculture and may be
purely fundamental or applied, or include aspects of both perspectives. All
types of symbiosis are appropriate, including commensalism, mutualism,
parasitism, and host-pathogen interactions. Research may focus on the biology
of the plant host, its pathogens, pests or symbionts, interactions among these,
or on the function of plant-associated microbiomes. The program welcomes
proposals on the dynamics of initiation, transmission, maintenance and outcome
of these complex associations, including studies of metabolic interactions,
immune recognition and signaling, host-symbiont regulation, reciprocal responses
among interacting species and mechanisms associated with self/non-self recognition such as those in pollen-pistil
interactions.
Announcement
Number:
17-551
Closing
Date:
Sep
01, 2017
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=293220
Contact
Information
Michael
L. Mishkind
(703)
292-8413