Active Grants

Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO), “University of California, Davis; Life Sciences Innovation Center” 2015-2023, $33,000,000.

USDA-NIFA, “A diazotrophic microbiome associated with maize reduces dependence on N fertilization”, June 2019 – May 2022, $748,879 (Co-PI with Dr. Bart Weimer).

UC MEXUS-CONACYT, "Nitrogen fixation associated with an indigenous landrace of maize", July 2018 - December 2020, $24,800

Completed Grants (active during last five years)

N2 Genetics, “Mechanisms of N2 Fixation in a diazotrophic Microbiome Associated with an Indigenous Landrace of Corn” 2013-2015, $3,700,000.

Binational Agricultural Research and Development, “Manipulating fruit chloroplasts as a strategy to improve fruit quality”, July 2013 – June 2016, $158,000

N2 Genetics, “Mechanisms of N2 fixation in landraces of maize”, July 2013 – June 2016, $693,567

Mars Inc., “Bridging Funding for UC Davis Alfalfa Project”, July 2014 – December 2015 $108,998.00

Center for Research and Applied Technology in Jali (CRATJ), “December 2014 Workshop in intellectual property (IP) management, technology transfer (TT) and entrepreneurship”, November 2014 – January 2015, $39,716

Mars Inc, “Maize Glycobiology –A platform for understanding host-microbe interactions” April 2015 – March 2017, $1,800,000

Universidad Del Desarrollo, “Diploma in Innovation and New Technologies for Agroindustry”, July - -October 2015 - $6,995

The Chilean Economic Development Agency, “UC Davis – Chile Admin Line”, January 2016 – November 2017, $123,000

Prince of Songkla University, “USPTO-Thailand workshop”, May – August 2016, $59,668

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), “Golden Rice 2 FTO”, June 2017 – May 2018, $40,260