Funding-NSF-
Plant-Biotic Interactions; June 6, 2016
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Directorate
for Biological Sciences
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. Explanatory frameworks may include molecular, genomic, metabolic,
cellular, network and organismal processes, with projects guided by hypothesis
and/or discovery driven experimental approaches. Where
appropriate, quantitative modeling in concert with experimental work is
encouraged. Overall, the program seeks to support research that will
deepen our understanding of the fundamental processes that mediate interactions
between plants and the organisms with which they intimately associate and
advance the application of that fundamental knowledge to benefit agriculture.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
16-551
Closing
Date:
June
06, 2016
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16551/nsf16551.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
Michael
L. Mishkind
(703)
292-8413