Project Grants

2Blades Foundation and the 2Blades Group at The Sainsbury Laboratory have been awarded grants from charitable foundations and contracts for commercial partnerships totaling more than $36 million.

Project(s)	Grant name		Agency	Start date
Unrestricted	Core and project support		The Gatsby Charitable Foundation	2007
Wheat Stem Rust	A pipeline for rapid cloning of stem rust resistance genes effective against Ug99 from wild diploid wheat relatives (2Blades Group)		Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)	2011
Wheat Stem Rust	Development of genomic tools to assist isolation of novel resistance genes from wheat relatives for deployment in wheat (2Blades Group)		TGAC Capacity and Capability Challenge Programme	2011
Cereal rusts	Deciphering the molecular basis of resistance to wheat yellow rust in wild and diverse grass species (2Blades Group)		Human Frontiers Science Program	2011
Citrus Canker	TAL Effector induced resistance to Xanthomonas		Citrus Research Development Foundation	2012
Citrus Greening	Engineering PAMP-receptor mediated broad spectrum resistance to HLB and canker		Citrus Research Development Foundation	2012
Black Sigatoka Disease in Banana	Using the tomato Cf-Ecp2 resistance gene for engineering resistance to black Sigatoka disease in banana (2Blades Group)		Norwich Research Park PhD Studentship	2012
Cereal rusts	Deciphering the genetic basis of resistance to wheat stripe rust in Brachypodium distachyon (2Blades Group)		BBSRC Doctoral Trainingship Program	2012
Asian Soybean Rust Resistance	Research collaboration to develop soybean varieties with increased resistance to Asian soybean rust		DuPont Pioneer	2013
Cereal rusts	Maximizing the potential for sustainable and durable resistance to the wheat yellow rust pathogen (2Blades Group)		BBSRC	2013
Wheat Stem Rust	Targeted variation of a resistance gene locus in barley using directed nuclease technology (2Blades Group)		Putra University Malaysia PhD Scholarship	2013
Technology development	Rapid identification of disease resistance genes from plant genomes by resistance gene enrichment sequencing (RenSeq) of EMS-derived susceptible mutants (2Blades Group)		BBSRC	2014
Citrus Canker	Engineering citrus for canker resistance		Citrus Research Development Foundation	2015
Resistance Gene Diversity	Multi-scale genomic interrogation of the angiosperm immune receptor repertoire		Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation	2015