Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Plant Biology: Environmental Stress

The future of agricultural productivity and sustainability depends on the ability of agricultural and forestry plants to grow and be productive in response to a changing environment, from short-term challenges, such as interannual climate variability and flooding, to long-term challenges, such as global climate change, sustained drought, and loss of arable land. This program supports fundamental research projects to improve and understand plant tolerance and resistance to environmental and climatic stress. These stresses can significantly reduce agricultural plant and forestry productivity Research ranging from genomics to physiology and from cell to field level will provide the basic knowledge to devise new or improved strategies for decreasing the impact of environmental stress and climate change on agricultural and forest productivity and 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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