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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt">NIFA, NSF Announce $14.5 Million in Available Funding for Plant-Biotic Research</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>WASHINGTON, March 10, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joined with the National Science Foundation (NSF) today to announce the availability of $14.5 million in funding for the NIFA-NSF Joint
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Plant-Biotics Interactions (PBI)</a> program.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>In fiscal year 2016, NIFA has made $6 million available for PBI and NSF has made $8.5 million available for fiscal year 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The program's scope extends from fundamental mechanisms to translational efforts, with the latter seeking to put into agricultural practice insights gained from basic research on the mechanisms that govern plant-biotic interactions. Projects must be strongly
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