Planning IUCRC at Mississippi State University: Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming

密西西比州立大学 IUCCRC 规划：昆虫养殖环境可持续性中心

• 批准号: 1841421
• 负责人: Heather Jordan
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841421&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; IUCRC; Mississippi; State; University

Food demand from the growing human population is expected to increase 100% over the next 40 years; however, predicted growth in agriculture production will fail to meet demand by ~40%. The inability to meet future food demands places more pressure on the one billion individuals currently underfed and living in substandard conditions throughout the world. These limitations will manifest into amplified social pressures such as, but not limited to, increased rates of disease, demand for land and water resources, and a lack of agricultural entrepreneurship, which only further weakens the global economy. A sustainable method (i.e., practical and economical) for remediating agricultural waste, while producing high value protein is essential to the long-term health of ecosystems and agriculture. One solution is the utilization of insect farming to convert organic wastes, which will potentially produce alternate resources of monetary value for the farmer. Insect farming can produce enormous amounts of protein and lipids that can be used in a variety of commodity settings (e.g., feed production, compost, biofuels, human food in some cases). And this production of alternative protein sources is less environmentally straining than most currently used methods in terms of reduced land and water usage and reduced emissions.The Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CESTIns) will be comprised of three sites (Texas A&M AgriLife Research [TAMU], Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis [IUPUI], and Mississippi State University [MSU]), with each site specializing in a specific area of research. The purpose of the MSU site is to: 1) Investigate insect microbiomes to optimize, and to evaluate their utility for increased insect nutrition, nutrition as feed, and waste conversion; 2) Conduct experiments to determine effects of probiotic supplementation on insect nutrition, feed nutrition, and waste conversion; 3) Use classical and molecular microbiology to develop and implement management plans for quality assurance (prevention) and control (detection) of microbial pathogens. MSU will work with the other sites to integrate research thrusts across the three sites with IUPUI and TAMU focusing on genetics, insect biology, and engineering and feed trials, respectively. Further, all three sites will work with strains produced by Industry as well as strains developed internally as a means to optimize mass production. Laboratory and field-based experiments will also engage interdisciplinary expertise in microbiology, engineering, chemistry, food nutrition, physiology, and vertebrate biology with cutting edge technologies.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.

未来40年，人口增长对粮食的需求预计将增加100%;然而，预计农业生产的增长将无法满足约40%的需求。无法满足未来的粮食需求，给全世界目前营养不良和生活条件低于标准的10亿人带来了更大的压力。这些限制将表现为社会压力的扩大，例如但不限于疾病率的增加、对土地和水资源的需求以及缺乏农业创业精神，这只会进一步削弱全球经济。一种可持续的方法（即，实用和经济），而生产高价值的蛋白质是生态系统和农业的长期健康所必不可少的。一种解决办法是利用昆虫养殖来转化有机废物，这将有可能为农民产生具有货币价值的替代资源。昆虫养殖可以产生大量的蛋白质和脂质，可用于各种商品环境（例如，饲料生产，堆肥，生物燃料，在某些情况下人类食物）。 通过昆虫养殖实现环境可持续发展中心（CESTIns）将由三个地点组成（德克萨斯农工&农业生命研究中心[TAMU]、印第安纳州普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校[IUPUI]和密西西比州立大学[MSU]），每个地点都专门从事特定的研究领域。 MSU的目的是：1）研究昆虫微生物组，以优化，并评估其在增加昆虫营养，饲料营养和废物转化方面的效用; 2）进行实验，以确定益生菌补充对昆虫营养，饲料营养和废物转化的影响; 3）运用经典微生物学和分子微生物学，制定和实施微生物病原体质量保证（预防）和控制（检测）的管理计划。 密歇根州立大学将与其他网站整合研究推力在三个网站与IUPUI和TAMU专注于遗传学，昆虫生物学，工程和饲料试验，分别。此外，所有三个地点将与工业生产的菌株以及内部开发的菌株合作，以优化大规模生产。实验室和现场实验也将涉及微生物学、工程学、化学、食品营养学、生理学和脊椎动物生物学领域的跨学科专业知识和尖端技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。