Who funds plant biology research?

We count 103 funded plant biology projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 7 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (28 projects), EU · MSCA (22 projects) and NSF · BIO (16 projects). The median award is $818K, across the 98 of 103 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

103

Funders

7

Median award

$818K

Open calls now

1

Top funders of plant biology research

Projects whose title or summary mentions plant biology. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open plant biology funding calls

1 open call mentions plant biology today.

• Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
  Geological Survey$1 – $350,000Deadline: November 14, 2026 ·

Funded plant biology projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Biomolecular condensates in plant stress adaptation
  NSF · BIO · $1,548,896 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Leveraging Conserved Gene Duplications to Improve Plant Regeneration
  NSF · BIO · $1,618,489 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Spatiotemporal Coordination of Growth and Differentiation Across Tissues
  NSF · BIO · $1,563,148 · ends 2031
• Rice provides nutrition for over 3.5 billion people and is an important commodity in the united states
  USDA · $750,000 · ends 2030
• American farmers face constant threats from crop diseases that jeopardize food security, reduce agricultural yields, and erode farm…
  USDA · $1,000,000 · ends 2030
• Collaborative Research: FEC: Converging AI, Biomechanics, and Genomics to Engineer Lodging Resilient Field Crops
  NSF · Office of the Director · $2,430,128 · ends 2030
• New competitive award to: university of wisconsin-madison control number: 3405-1508 foa number: de-foa-0003405 – technologies to emend and…
  DOE · $5,500,000 · ends 2030
• Healthy soil is the foundation of productive farms, clean water, and resilient rural economies, but today's soil health scorecards…
  USDA · $737,740 · ends 2030
• Developing Scientific Instrument Operation, Data Analysis, and Data Visualization Skills in Plant Ecology and Plant Biology
  NSF · EDU · $500,000 · ends 2029
• Shedding New Light on Plant Biology: Chemical Fingerprint Imaging in Plants with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
  UKRI · BBSRC · £721,700 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “plant biology or plant growth or plant genome or plant immunity or plant development or plant pathogen or plant cell”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.