PFI-RP: Crop Seed Shaped Pellets for Planting Multi-Species Conservation Habitats with Standard Planting Equipment

PFI-RP：作物种子形状颗粒，用于使用标准种植设备种植多物种保护栖息地

• 批准号: 2345771
• 负责人: John Losey
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; RP; Crop; Seed; Shaped

This Partnerships for Innovation - Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) project develops an affordable method for farmers to grow non-crop plants that nurture the essential insects (such as butterflies, bees, and ladybugs) required for efficient food production. Standard planting equipment is established for planting a small range of crop seeds (e.g., corn, soy, alfalfa, etc.) but not the wider set of plant species that essential insects require. The solution develops pellets that contain the diverse plants needed to support the essential insects and are the size and shape of crop seeds so they can be planted with the standard planting equipment farmers already use. This technology will allow farmers benefit from the additional ecological services like pollination and pest suppression these habitats facilitate. Consumers will benefit from the lower food prices that enhanced ecological services will allow.This project will develop an efficient, flexible mechanism for inserting tailored, non-crop diversity into cropping systems. The initial focus of the technology is the restoration of habitat for the monarch butterfly. This project will develop a multi-seed pellet to plant non-crop plants such as milkweeds and coneflowers into agroecosystems to attract beneficial insects as a shift in weed management has precipitated a rapid decline in those plant and the beneficial birds and insects that depend on them. To reach the goal of habitat restoration necessary for increased food crop yields, the team will (1) select the optimal set of species to incorporate, (2) determine optimal methods for conditioning and breaking dormancy, (3) develop efficient methods to produce the multi-seed pellets, and (4) test the technology in large-scale field tests.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.

这种创新的合作伙伴关系 - 研究合作伙伴关系（PFI-RP）项目为农民开发了一种负担得起的方法，可以种植非杂草植物，这些植物培育基本昆虫（例如蝴蝶，蜜蜂和瓢虫）进行有效的粮食生产所需的方法。建立了用于种植少量农作物种子（例如玉米，大豆，苜蓿等）的标准种植设备，但不是必需昆虫所需的植物种类。 该溶液会发展出包含支撑基本昆虫所需的不同植物的颗粒，并且是农作物种子的大小和形状，因此可以与已经使用的标准种植设备一起种植。这项技术将使农民从授粉等其他生态服务中受益，并抑制这些栖息地的促进。消费者将受益于增强生态服务所允许的较低的食品价格。该项目将开发出一种有效，灵活的机制，用于将量身定制的非作品多样性插入种植系统中。该技术的最初重点是修复君主蝴蝶的栖息地。该项目将开发出多种种子的颗粒，以种植非杂草植物（例如乳草和锥花）到农业生态系统中，以吸引有益的昆虫，因为杂草管理的转变导致那些植物的迅速下降，以及依赖于它们的有益的鸟类和昆虫。为了达到增加粮食作物产量所需的栖息地恢复的目标，团队将（1）选择最佳物种集合以合并的最佳集合，（2）确定最佳的调理和破坏休眠的方法，（3）开发有效的方法来生成多种子的毛囊，并通过大规模野外测试中的技术授予，并在nsf的范围内测试了该奖项，并且已经反映了nsf的批准。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。