Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Microbial Biology: Microbial Associations with Plants

Microorganisms are critical to the productivity and sustainability of agricultural ecosystems. Mechanisms of microbial communication between microbes in communities or in association with plants must be elucidated to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying agriculturally relevant processes within microbes, between microbes, and between microbes and their hosts. This program supports: 1) fundamental hypothesis-driven research on the interactions between microorganisms and plants with which they are associated and 2) characterization of and communication in plant-associated microbial communities in agriculturally relevant environments. The program encourages application of knowledge gained to systems of economic importance to U.S. agriculture or of importance to agricultural sustainability. This program makes single function research awards.

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This is a non-integrated program. Please refer to Part III, A of the current Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Request for Applications for the complete eligibility requirements.

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