Cooperative Agreement 5853053169F0

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), aims to develop rapid and sensitive diagnostic assays to detect Phytophthora species in nursery irrigation and surface water for early detection. The $158,297 award, with a performance period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, will support the evaluation of a filtration assay...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $165,473 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to develop and validate standardized diagnostic assays for graft-transmissible citrus pathogens. The primary goal is to enhance citrus germplasm mobility between California and Florida by creating...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $143,072 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The primary purpose of this agreement is to consolidate 10 singleplex real-time PCR (qPCR) assays currently used by the California Citrus Clonal Protection Program (CCPP) into three multiplex qPCR assays, and...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provides $617,046 to North Carolina State University to continue developing in-field volatile organic compound and microneedle patch-supported loop-mediated isothermal amplification sensors that can differentiate two important plant pathogens, Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae. The award period is from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. These innovations...

The California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) was awarded a $1,308,771 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to support CDFA's efforts to address the Phytophthora ramorum pathogen, the causal agent of Sudden Oak Death, through regulatory activities such as inspection,...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will conduct gene editing research on the glassy-winged sharpshooter to eliminate transmission of Xylella fastidiosa bacteria under a $102,839 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service. The research supports the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA #10.025) by working to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) was awarded a $649,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to conduct a proactive survey for priority diseases and insect pests of stone fruits in California, including plum pox potyvirus, false codling moth, European cherry fruit fly,...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), supports the Foundation Plant Services (FPS) Clean Plant Specialty Crop Program at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). The primary purpose is to develop, maintain, and produce high-quality, pathogen-tested foundation plant stock, and provide importation, quarantine, and diagnostic testing services for grapevines, fruit trees, roses, and sweetpotatoes. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $100,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) will support a comprehensive survey to detect the presence of several invasive agricultural pests in California. The survey will focus on identifying any incipient populations of the tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta), false codling moth (Thaumatotibia...