Apply For Funding
2025 RFP – Approaches to speed up the transition from juvenility to maturity
The Citrus Research and Development Foundation, Inc. announces the 2025 call for Preproposals soliciting approaches to speed up the transition from juvenility to maturity. Currently, CRISPR is done in citrus protoplasts resulting in regenerated plantlets that are juvenile. The time required for transition from juvenility to maturity is a major limitation. Flowering is an obvious characteristic of maturity. In recent decades, two genes that produce three proteins called FT1, FT2, and FT3 have been researched to understand their involvement in induction of flowering. Specific microRNAs have also been elucidated that regulate the flowering process. Better understanding of the regulation of flowering may enable manipulation to greatly decrease the period of juvenility. This RFP is to develop new approaches to speed up the transition from juvenility to maturity.
The deadline to submit Preproposals is 5:00 PM Eastern Time on Monday, August 25, 2025.
Applying for Directed Research or Off-Cycle Citrus Research Funding
Directed Research and Off-cycle Funding
On occasion, CRDF invites a Directed Research proposal to address an immediate specific topic outside of the RFP process. As well, CRDF accepts off-cycle proposals from researchers for research projects that have the potential to dramatically improve tree health or increase fruit yield and quality in HLB-affected trees. On those occasions, submission instructions can be found at the following link:
Funding Forms
Next Steps for Applicants:
Full proposals may be ineligible for review and funding if:
- The applicant was not on the list of pre-proposals invited to submit a full proposal
- The Full Proposal was not received by the deadline indicated in the instructions
- Formatting guidelines (font size, page limitations, page/line numbering, etc.) were not followed, or,
- Any of the required documents are missing (cover sheet, budget information, report on prior funded project, etc.).
