Year Awarded 2019
FFAR award amount $927,581
Total award amount $1,855,162
Location Davis, CA
Program Seeding Solutions
Matching Funders Benson Hill
Grantee Institution University of California Davis
Plants need nitrogen to grow. Although the majority of earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen, plants cannot access this form of nitrogen. We awarded a grant to the University of California, Davis to study a Mexican corn variety, Sierra Mixe, that obtains atmospheric nitrogen with the help of microbes, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.