Cooperative Agreement 5830722006F

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $590,542.68 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310). The four-year project aims to develop peanut varieties with enhanced pest and disease resistance by utilizing wild peanut relatives from South America as a source of valuable genetic traits. Researchers will analyze wild species to identify...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, aims to identify novel sources of resistance to foliage feeding caterpillars (FFCs) in peanuts, introgress new or under-utilized sources of FFC resistance, and develop methods to reliably evaluate and quantify resistance to the peanut burrower bug (PBB). The $490,000 award to the University of Georgia Research Foundation will be used over a 4-year period...

This $750,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research at the University of Tennessee focused on identifying major soybean resistance genes against soybean cyst nematode (SCN). SCN is the most yield-limiting pathogen of soybeans in the U.S., causing an estimated $1.5 billion in annual losses. The research aims to confirm the function of...

This $325,000 Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) seeks to characterize fungicide resistance of the Botrytis pathogen affecting a wide range of specialty crops including fruit, ornamentals, vegetable transplants, and row crops in California and Michigan. The key objectives are to: 1) determine the fungicide resistance profile of Botrytis populations...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $490,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive federal grants program to Gene Shifters, LLC for a project grant titled "Developing a Targeted Method of Alien Gene Transfer to Introduce Ascochyta Blight Resistance in Chickpea." The project aims to develop a novel, targeted method for transferring disease resistance genes from wild chickpea relatives to cultivated varieties in...

This cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service will fund the development and validation of fungicide resistance monitoring tools for Botrytis species in specialty crops. Michigan State University will receive $133,735 to enhance fungicide resistance management through improved detection and monitoring of resistance development. Specifically, the university will develop molecular markers for fungicide resistance to FRAC groups 2, 7, 9, 11, and 12,...

This $500,000 three-year Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research to develop peanut cultivars resilient to climate change impacts. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) will lead efforts to evaluate peanut lines within the established Peanut Variety and Quality Evaluation (PVQE) multi-state program. This will include new...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $486,244 to the Regents of the University of Idaho to identify and isolate genetic defenses from the Solanum sisymbriifolium plant (litchi tomato) that are immune to potato cyst nematodes (PCN). The goal is to transfer these defenses into potato crops to develop...

This $5,953,802 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) program funds a multi-institutional effort led by New Mexico State University to develop an integrated, system-based approach to significantly reduce the risk of Phytophthora blight in vegetable crops like peppers and cucurbits. The project aims to: 1) evaluate genetic diversity of the causal agent Phytophthora capsici, 2) identify resistant crop genotypes tolerant to...

This $104,015 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Florida A&M University to integrate transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to examine peanut stress tolerance mechanisms. The project aims to uncover the molecular pathways underlying peanut's cross-tolerance to simultaneous drought stress and fungal pathogen infestation, which can impact aflatoxin production and food safety. A $75,000 sub-award...