The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, is announcing that $25 million dollar amount is available to support the advancement of Plant Genomics to understand the plant gene function(s).

This NOFO solicits applications for “Genomics - Enabled Understanding and Advancing Knowledge on Plant Gene Function(s)” to effectively design bioenergy crops by developing approaches to:

a) understand regulatory elements, biological mechanisms and develop predictive models for dissecting multigene traits and their component parts that govern plant growth under different growing conditions, biochemical and signaling pathways;

b) understand genetic components and molecular mechanisms underlying plant regeneration/organogenesis in tissue culture to improve heterologous DNA transfer to germlines of bioenergy crops; and

c) understand genetic and molecular mechanisms that will reduce the cycle time for out-crossing energy crops (e.g. self-incompatibility) to speed development of new plant feedstocks underpinning a more broader and more competitive U.S. bioeconomy.

Learn more about this opportunity and eligibility by visiting the funding opportunities website.

Applicant institutions are limited to no more than one, pre-application, or application for each PI at the applicant institution.