Year Awarded 2020
FFAR award amount $500,000
Total award amount $1,000,000
Location Davis, CA
Program Plant Protein Enhancement Project
Matching Funders Open Philanthropy
Grantee Institution NuCicer
The future of agriculture requires producing more food on less land in an environmentally sustainable manner. Ensuring global nutritional security depends in large part on plants that are more efficient at producing calories and protein than livestock. However, centuries of crop domestication have limited the genetic capacity to improve widely consumed crops to meet these needs. NuCicer is introducing greater genetic diversity into chickpea varieties. This research is increasing protein content and quality and developing other desirable agronomic traits in chickpeas.