Plant Biotechnology and Genomics

• Novel genes and genetic technologies for improved plant traits, such as yield, drought, nitrogen utilization, disease control, nematode control, herbicide tolerance, insect control, and quality traits
• Plant transformation technologies
• Cloning technologies
• Protein design
• High efficiency protein expression systems
• Proteomics, metabolomics, RNA analysis
• Rapid and sensitive protein and nucleic acid detection
• Gene expression and RNAi technologies
• Bioinformatics and computational biology tools
• High throughput DNA sequencing, genotyping, epigenetic analysis
• Imaging and image analysis: from micro-scale to satellite imagery scale
• Automated environmental sensing
• Field deployable analytical methods and robotics

Plant Breeding Technologies

• Plant breeding tools and methods, marker and sequence-assisted breeding
• Field-deployable plant phenotyping technologies
• Quantitative genetics methodologies and environmental modeling
• Trait stacking technologies
• Di-haploid seed production

Chemistry and Microbiology

• Chemical or microbial technologies for control of insects, nematodes, diseases, plant growth, and/or abiotic stress for use in seed treatment and/or plant health applications
• Formulation technologies for improved stability and controlled release of active ingredients