I-Corps: Microbial technologies for crops

I-Corps：农作物微生物技术

• 批准号: 2322095
• 负责人: Mark Williams
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Microbial; technologies; crops

The broader impact of this I-Corps project is the development of a groundbreaking technology that uses microbiologicals to increase crop yield while reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers. By reducing the environmental impact of fertilizers, this technology has the potential to revolutionize sustainable agriculture and improve human health. The technology seeks to address the global need for more food to be grown with fewer resources, lower costs, and fewer environmental impacts. The goal of the project is to meet this need through entrepreneurial training to determine customer demand for the technology.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a microbiological technology that can be applied to soil during planting to promote plant growth while reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers. The microbiological technology seeks to overcome functional problems that plague the crop probiotic industry, and its innovation is expected to consistently increase crop yield while offsetting the monetary and environmental costs of synthetic fertilizers. This technology could be used to improve human health through the reduction of ecosystem, waterway, and air pollution caused by synthetic fertilizers. By creating high-paying jobs and fostering a more educated workforce, the technology is expected to spur innovation and solve more problems in the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响是开发一种开创性的技术，该技术使用微生物学来增加农作物的产量，同时减少对合成肥料的需求。通过减少肥料的环境影响，这项技术有可能彻底改变可持续农业并改善人类健康。该技术旨在满足全球对更多食物的需求，以减少资源，较低的成本和较少的环境影响。该项目的目的是通过创业培训来满足这一需求，以确定客户对技术的需求。此I-Corps项目基于一种微生物技术的开发，该技术在种植过程中可以应用于土壤，以促进植物生长，同时减少对合成肥料的需求。微生物技术试图克服困扰农作物益生菌行业的功能问题，预计其创新将一贯提高作物产量，同时抵消合成肥料的货币和环境成本。该技术可用于通过减少由合成肥料引起的生态系统，水路和空气污染来改善人类健康。通过创造高薪工作并培养受教育程度的劳动力，该技术有望刺激创新并解决该领域的更多问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点评估来支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。