IUCRC Phase I: Mississippi State University: Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF)

IUCRC 第一阶段：密西西比州立大学：昆虫养殖环境可持续性中心 (CEIF)

• 批准号: 2052788
• 负责人: Heather Jordan
• 金额: $ 68.03万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2052788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; Mississippi; State; University

This Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF) represents a first of its kind IUCRC to support the animal nutrition and human food industries that go beyond conventional protein sources currently available. At current rates of population growth, traditional agriculture will be under intense pressure to meet protein demands. Insect farming can increase the food supply for both animals and humans. In addition, sustainable and cost effective methods for remediating agricultural waste while producing high value protein is essential to the long term health of ecosystems and agriculture. Select insects can take waste, such as that produced in agro-ecosystems or urban environments, and convert it into protein and compost. Industry can utilize the knowledge created in the center to further explore the use of insect protein, with suitable regulatory approvals, as food for humans and animals. Thus, insect-farming and its innovations could represent a circular economy, which reduces land and/or water use and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Insect farming may also relieve the stress imposed on marine and agricultural resources to generate protein for food and animal feed. The Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF) comprises of three sites (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis [IUPUI], Texas A&M AgriLife Research [TAMU], and Mississippi State University [MSU]), with each site specializing in a specific area of research. The sites will work collaboratively to deliver industry-desired, fundamental research into the genetics/genomics of the insect systems, evaluating the heritability of traits, and determining the genetic contributions to traits, allowing for future optimization and mass production. Through this research, new knowledge and technologies will fill critical scientific and industrial gaps related to insect farming for livestock and aquaculture production as well as insect production for human consumption. Laboratory and field-based experiments will also engage interdisciplinary expertise in microbiology, engineering, chemistry, food nutrition, physiology, and biology with cutting edge technologies. The purpose of the MSU site is to: 1) Investigate insect microbiomes to optimize and evaluate their utility for increased insect nutrition, nutrition as feed, and waste conversion; 2) Conduct experiments to determine the 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, engineering, and feed trials. All three sites will work with strains produced by industry as well as strains developed internally as a means to optimize mass production.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.

该工业大学合作研究中心（IUCRC）通过昆虫养殖（CEIF）实现环境可持续发展，是第一个支持动物营养和人类食品工业的IUCRC，超越了目前可用的传统蛋白质来源。按照目前的人口增长速度，传统农业将面临满足蛋白质需求的巨大压力。昆虫养殖可以增加动物和人类的食物供应。此外，在生产高价值蛋白质的同时，可持续和具有成本效益的农业废物修复方法对生态系统和农业的长期健康至关重要。精选的昆虫可以吸收农业生态系统或城市环境中产生的废物，并将其转化为蛋白质和堆肥。工业界可以利用该中心创造的知识，进一步探索昆虫蛋白的用途，并获得适当的监管批准，作为人类和动物的食物。因此，昆虫养殖及其创新可以代表循环经济，减少土地和/或水的使用，减少温室气体排放。昆虫养殖还可以缓解为食物和动物饲料生产蛋白质对海洋和农业资源造成的压力。通过昆虫养殖实现环境可持续发展中心（CEIF）由三个研究中心组成（印第安纳州普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校[IUPUI]、德克萨斯农工大学农业生命研究所[TAMU]和密西西比州立大学[MSU]），每个研究中心都专注于一个特定的研究领域。 这些研究中心将协同工作，为昆虫系统的遗传学/基因组学提供行业所需的基础研究，评估性状的遗传性，并确定遗传对性状的贡献，以便未来优化和大规模生产。 通过这项研究，新的知识和技术将填补与畜牧业和水产养殖生产昆虫养殖以及人类消费昆虫生产有关的关键科学和工业空白。实验室和实地实验也将涉及微生物学，工程，化学，食品营养，生理学和生物学的跨学科专业知识与尖端技术。MSU的目的是：1）调查昆虫微生物组，以优化和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。这三个研究中心都将使用工业生产的菌株以及内部开发的菌株，以优化大规模生产。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。

项目成果

Government and industry investment plays crucial role in further establishment, evolution, and diversification of insect agriculture: a case example from the United States

政府和行业投资在昆虫农业的进一步建立、演变和多样化中发挥着至关重要的作用：以美国为例

• DOI: 10.3920/jiff2022.x001
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
• 影响因子: 5.1
• 作者: Tomberlin, J.K.;Picard, C.J.;Jordan, H.R.;Preyer, C.;Warburton, C.;Crowley, P.;Zheng, R.;Boulanger, F.X.;Banks, I.;Lefranc, M.
• 通讯作者: Lefranc, M.