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PERSEPHONE: Tools to Revolutionize Genetic Engineering of Bioenergy Crops

ARPA-E’s PERSEPHONE program funds development of transformative tools and new modalities for engineering bioenergy crops to enable large-scale energy production and carbon mitigation. It supports three tracks: (A) high-performance transformation tools (10× throughput, 4× cost and 2× time reductions), (B) radically new engineering approaches that exceed those targets, and (C) biocontainment tec…

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Agency: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy

Award

Total Funding: $15M

Award Ceiling: $4M

Award Floor: $250,000

Funding Amount: $4M

Total Awards Given 7

Dates

Opportunity Released: February 10, 2025

Submission Deadline: March 4, 2025

Application Window Closes: March 4, 2025

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Keywords

bioenergy crops

plant genetic engineering

gene-editing

biocontainment

synthetic biology

high-throughput transformation

cost-reduction

carbon-mitigation

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