DARPA: Advanced Plant Technologies (APT)

The goal of the DARPA Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program is to create the foundations for engineering plant varieties able to receive a variety of stimuli and produce measurable signals as output (“stimulus-response”). APT will rigorously explore the feasibility of using engineered plant varieties as independent biosensors.

 

Three specific and complementary technical objectives:
1. Identify, test, and integrate genetic components for plant sensing and reporting.
2. Tailor plant resource collection and allocation to support sense-and-report traits.
3. Ensure long-term sense-and-report capability by engineering plants to be robust in intended environments.

 

 

 

Funding: No fixed limit

Duration: 4 years 

 

 

Research Authority due date: 4.1.18

abstract (required) due date: 11.1.18

Full proposal due date: 21.2.18