SBIR/STTR Research Award
SBIR Phase I: Enabling High Output Carotenogenesis in Plant Cells
Award amount
$92,850Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Kuehnle AgroSystems Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- YQ1GJK7MF9W4
- Solicitation number
- NSF 03-535
- Topic code
- BT
Research abstract
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate the technical feasibility of enhancing isoprenoid biosynthesis by mevalonate pathway addition to plastids of a eukaryotic model. Isoprenoids, as carotenoids, serve as natural colorants in plant products and also have a market as human dietary supplement. Increasing the output of carotenoids in cultivated plants and microalgae is of considerable interest as a way to provide these isoprenoids as natural products from renewable sources rather than from chemical synthesis.
The commercial application of this project will be on the aquaculture and the ornamental horticulture industries.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- PRESERVATION OF BIOPROCESS ALGAE FOR CERTIFIED SEEDSTOCK
- Biofuels Production From Nonedible Bio-oils
- Microalgae As Renewable Biofactories: The Production of Biofuels and High Value Bioproducts
- Biofuels Production From Nonedible Bio-oils
- SBIR Phase II: Enabling High Output Metabolism in Plant Cells
Research funding history
12 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2010). Reported award amounts total $2,985,676. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation