BIO

Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Plant Biotic Interactions Program (PBI) Awards

Fiscal Year 2018 PBI Awards

Program Announcement Award # Principal Investigator Lead Institution Title Expected Total Awards ($) Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758459 Alfano, J University of Nebraska-Lincoln The microtubule network and cell wall-based extracellular immunity $600.000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758857 Atamian, H Chapman University RUI: Diurnal and circadian regulation of the plant microbiome $292,217 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05102 Axtell, M Penn State University MicroRNAs as trans-species virulence factors during dodder parasitism $797,504 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1759030 Brueggeman, R North Dakota State University A resistance and susceptibility gene cluster in barley is targeted by diverse Pyrenophora teres f. teres effectors * $600,000 Award Abstract
2018-05353 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758820 Chen, S Univ. of Florida Deciphering the guard cell metabolome in plant pathogen defense $91,288 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758767 Chen, ZH Purdue University A pathogen-activated transcription program directed by TFIIB-related pBrp1 in plant immunity $745,874 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758046 Citovsky, V SUNY at Stony Brook Pathways for Colonization of Plant Genome by Agrobacterium $480,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05374 Cook, D Kansas State University Deciphering the control network and genome dynamics during fungal plant pathogenesis $687,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758400 Dangl, J Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Structure-Function Analyses of Plant NLR receptors $1,200,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05014 Di, R Rutgers University CRISPR-editing of sweet basil susceptibility genes to improve downy mildew resistance $300,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1750280 Dlugosch, K Univ. of Arizona CAREER: Rapid evolution of an invasive plant: the role of microbial interactions ** $1,069,152 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758994 Fu, Z Univ. of S. Carolina Targeting of salicylic acid-activated NPR1 by a bacterial type III effector $487,567 Award Abstract
FELS ROLS EAGER 18-1 1837824 Greenberg, J Univ. of Chicago RoL:FELS:EAGER:Emergent Functions of Secreted Microbial Effectors *** $300,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758843 Heese, A University of Missouri-Columbia Roles of Epsin1-dependent clathrin-coat in plant immunity against bacteria $622,911 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05040 Jacobs, J Ohio State Univ. Basis of Xanthomonas Tissue-Specific Behavior During Plant Pathogenesis $700,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05372 Judelson, H Univ. of Calif., Riverside Molecular mechanisms and plant signals regulating effector expression in Phytophthora pathosystems $747,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-04789 Kistler, H USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Midwest Area The toxisome and its importance for terpene synthesis and fungal virulence $370,000 Award Abstract
FELS ROLS EAGER 18-11 1837583 Klavins, E University of Washington RoL:FELS:EAGER: Exploring the adaptive possibilities of 'redundancy' in a plant defense hormone signaling pathway $300,000 Award Abstract
FELS ROLS EAGER 18-1 1838299 Koskella, B Univ. of Calif., Berkeley RoL: FELS: EAGER: Disease resistance as a product of synergy between host immunity and the microbiome $299,530 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05041 Liu, S Kansas State University Analyses of Bacterial Avirulence and Virulence Loci and Host Resistance of Maize Goss's Wilt $700,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758889 Ma, W Univ. of Calif., Riverside Targeting a conserved structural module in Phytophthora effectors for disease resistance * $859,592 Award Abstract
2018-05042 NIFA Award Abstract
LTREB 17-513 1754468 Miller, T William Marsh Rice University LTREB: Collaborative Research: Host-microbe symbiosis through the lens of stochastic demography ** $320,195 Award Abstract
1754433 Rodgers, J University of New Mexico ** $178,630 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758932 Rollins, J University of Florida Testing a two phase model of broad-host range necrotrophic compatibility $667,537 Award Abstract
MCB PBI 17-589 1817652 Scharf, B Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Specificity of chemotaxis-driven motility in Sinorhizobium meliloti host interaction *** $991,202 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758976 Schmelz, E Univ. of Calif., San Diego Modular biochemical networks of maize anti-pathogen defense defined by integrating synthetic biochemistry, genetics and physiological function $856,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05152 Shan, L Texas A&M AgriLife Research Cotton resistance and susceptibility to bacterial blight $700,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758947 Silva, L Univ. of Oregon, Eugene Harnessing biological complexity to improve food security: How do mycorrhizal networks control resource transfer and plant productivity in inter- and mono-crop model systems $294,705 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1759048 Simms, E Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Did rhizobia associated with invading legumes escape bacteriophage enemies? $54,586 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-04812 Tyler, B Oregon State University Genomic mechanisms of pathogenic adaptation in Phytophthora sojae $700,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05351 Ullman, D Univ. of Calif., Davis Integrative Approaches to Understanding How Insect Vectors and Plant Viruses Interact and Manipulate Their Plant Hosts $1,060,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 2018-05399 Vaillancourt, L University of Kentucky Research Foundation A Novel Function for the Highly Conserved Signal Peptidase in the Regulation of Biotrophy in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus $1,250,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1759034 Verchot, JM Texas A&M AgriLife Research Investigating how the cellular ER stress machinery regulates plant virus infection $573,792 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1759023 Walley, J Univ. of Iowa Elucidation of roles that protein acetylation plays in mediating plant-pathogen interactions $750,000 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1750717 Werner, S University of Tennessee Knoxville CAREER: Defining colonization mechanisms and functions of Streptomyces strains in root microbiomes $699,380 Award Abstract
PBI 17-551 1758037 Zhu, H University of Kentucky Research Foundation Elucidating genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying symbiotic specificity in the Medicago-Sinorhizobium mutualism $750,734 Award Abstract

* cofunded NSF/NIFA USDA
** cofunded PBI/DEB
*** cofunded PBI/MCB

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Fiscal Year 2017 PBI Awards

Program Announcement Award # Principal Investigator
& Co-Principal Investigators
Lead Institution & Subaward* Title Expected Total Awards ($) Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02568 Bauer, C. E. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA ENHANCING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BENEFICIAL ROOT/RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS IN AGRICULTURALLY RELEVANT PLANTS $496,345 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02994 Beattie, G. A. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, AMES, IOWA DRIVERS OF HOST ADAPTATION AND DIVERSIFICATION IN AN EMERGING PLANT PATHOGEN, ERWINIA TRACHEIPHILA $791,380 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02908 Bucking, H. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA SYMBIOTIC DIALOGUE IN TRIPARTITE INTERACTIONS OF LEGUMES $999,942 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645858 Cheung, Alice Y. University of Massachusetts Amherst Dissecting the mechanisms of FERONIA and related receptor kinase-mediated pollen-pistil interactions $450,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1644713 Culver, James University of Maryland College Park Virus Mediated Phloem Loading Involves the Suppression of Age Related Resistance $600,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-1 1660903 Dehesh, Katayoon Gordon Research Conferences Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference, Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism, and Function (01/28/17 - 02/03/17, Galveston, TX) $10,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645589 Dong, Xinnian Duke University Elucidation of translational regulatory mechanisms of plant immune responses $925,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645548 Felton, Gary W. Pennsylvania State Univ University Park Multitrophic Manipulation of Herbivore Perception by Plants $600,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-03060 Gonzalez, C. F. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A REGULON INVOLVED IN THE PERSISTENCE OF CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS IN CITRUS $863,489 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645875 Heath, Katy D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Systems genetics of symbiotic quality in legume-rhizobium mutualism $717,607 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645745 Innes, Roger W. Indiana University Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Plant-Pathogen Interactions $655,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645909 Izquierdo, Javier A. Hofstra University RUI: Role of the root microbiome in growth promotion and health of the beachgrass Ammophila breviligulata $476,421 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645590 Kahn, Michael L. Washington State University Characterizing a Novel Sinorhizobium activity that Increases Legume Nodulation $425,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1553613 Kang, Hong-Gu Texas State University - San Marcos CAREER: Characterization of Epigenetic Factors and their Regulatory Roles in Modulating Transposable Elements, Plant Immunity and Transgenerational Inheritance $786,023 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645557 Kao, Teh-hui Pennsylvania State Univ University Park Molecular, Biochemical, and Structural Studies of the Mechanism of S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility in Petunia $680,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645460 Katagiri, Fumiaki University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Evolution of the plant immune signaling network $913,687 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02993 Kolomiets, M. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS SYSTEMIC OXYLIPIN SIGNALS (SOS) FOR HERBIVORY-INDUCED DEFENSE $982,718 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645908 Kunkel, Barbara N. Washington University Roles of auxin during Pseudomonas syringae pathogenesis $645,000 Award Abstract
NSF 15-555 1652641 Ma, Li-Jun University of Massachusetts Amherst CAREER: Understand effector biology in the species complex Fusarium oxysporum $793,199 Award Abstract
NSF 16-505 1655127 Perlin, Michael H. University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc Meeting: First US-Sponsored Ustilago maydis Conference, Asilomar, California, March 13-14, 2017 $17,780 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-03128 Ronald, P. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, DAVIS, CALIFORNIA THE ROLE OF MICRORNAS AND MICROPEPTIDES IN THE PLANT IMMUNE RESPONSE $542,620 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645508 Swanson, Robert J. Valparaiso University RUI: The genetics and mathematical modeling of pollen performance $162,952 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02684 Valent, B. KANSAS STATE UNIV, MANHATTAN, KANSAS ON THE MECHANISM OF TRANSLOCATION OF EFFECTORS INTO LIVING RICE CELLS BY THE BLAST FUNGUS MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE $634,320 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02986 Wang, N. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA CONSEQUENCES OF GENOME EDITING THE SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE CSLOB1 FOR CITRUS BACTERIAL CANKER $911,544 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645740 Wang, Xiaofeng Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virus-host interactions in the assembly of positive-strand RNA virus replication complexes $770,906 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1557943 Wilson, Richard University of Nebraska-Lincoln Molecular Mechanisms Connecting Plant Defense Suppression with Magnaporthe oryzae Growth in Rice Cells $570,000 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02683 Wolfe, B. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS LINKING PATTERNS WITH PROCESSES IN PHYLLOSPHERE MICROBIOME ASSEMBLY $387,783 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 2017-02567 Yang, B. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, AMES, IOWA ITALES: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF INTERFERRING TAL EFFECTORS IN VIRULENCE $586,185 Award Abstract
NSF 16-551 1645659 Zeng, Lirong University of Nebraska-Lincoln Role of Organelle-localized Lys63-Linked Ubiquitination in Plant Immunity $685,000 Award Abstract

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