Year Awarded 2017
FFAR award amount $300,000
Total award amount $600,000
Location Urbana-Champaign, IL
Matching Funders The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Grantee Institution University of Illinois
Modern agriculture uses large amounts of fertilizer to maximize crop yield. However, up to 70 percent of applied Nitrogen is not absorbed by plants, resulting in extensive air and water pollution. The current understanding of the Nitrogen process in plants is limited by the lack of information at the molecular level. University of Illinois researchers are developing new approaches to understand the plant nitrogen uptake process.