HR 7949 · 119th Congress

NSF Plant Biology Act

This bill creates a new grant program at the National Science Foundation to fund research on plants and microbes that could help agriculture, food production, and biotechnology. Right now, the NSF doesn't have a dedicated funding stream specifically for plant biology research, so this bill fills that gap. Universiti…

Sponsor

Riley, Josh (D-New York)

Introduced

2026-03-16

Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications