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The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $154,631 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support research developing scab resistant wheat and barley via genomics from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The award is being used to fund research under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which supports making agricultural research...

This $585,414 Project Grant award was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The award supports research at Oklahoma State University (OSU) to address key challenges in hard winter wheat production, including identifying disease resistance genes and developing high-throughput phenotyping capabilities to rapidly screen for barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. The project aims to map resistance...

This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI CFDA 10.310) to Colorado State University (CSU) aims to address two key questions related to disease resistance genes in plants. The first objective is to determine the function of a class of disease resistance proteins that are abundant in dicot plant species (e.g. vegetables, fruits) but present as a single gene in many monocot genomes (e.g. cereals, grains). This will be...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $165,228 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support research on breeding Fusarium head blight resistant spring and winter barley from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The grant is being administered under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, which provides funding for scientific discoveries and...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Dakota State University a $371,333 Project Grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to conduct wheat breeding for enhanced Fusarium head blight resistance in North Dakota. The grant period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026 and will support research to develop wheat varieties with improved resistance to Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease that reduces wheat yields and...

Montana State University received a $644,293 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project aims to develop new wheat varieties with increased biomass and seed yield through genetic modifications to the Teosinte Branched 1 gene, which influences tiller production in cereal plants. The university will create new spring, winter, and...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a two-year, $182,019 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a mineral rover for quantifying Fusarium head blight (FHB) severity in wheat and barley field experiments. Objectives of the research include using the rover to phenotype FHB severity, developing models to quantify FHB from imaged plots,...

This three-year, $999,856 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research program (CFDA 10.219) supports research to monitor and assess risk of resistance to Bt proteins in European corn borer populations. The Ohio State University will collect European corn borer samples across the northeastern and western US through 2025 to analyze Cry1F resistance alleles. The University of Guelph will conduct...

This $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) supports research to improve the breadmaking quality of triticale grain. Led by the University of California, Davis from Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2026, the collaborative network aims to identify genes responsible for loaf volume in select triticale lines and incorporate favorable wheat breadmaking genes into...

The University of Nebraska was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research program to evaluate the impact of blended seed refuges and the VIP3A Bacillus thuringiensis toxin on western bean cutworm resistance management. Over a four-year period ending August 2025, the University will optimize artificial diets for western bean cutworm susceptibility monitoring and...