Cooperative Agreement 5853053170F1

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 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) provides $158,297 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to develop rapid diagnostic assays to detect Phytophthora species in nursery irrigation and surface water. The goal is to enable early detection of these plant pathogens, which can cause costly disease...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $165,473 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The primary purpose of this 1-year award, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026, is to develop and validate standardized diagnostic assays for graft-transmissible citrus pathogens to facilitate the safe and efficient exchange of citrus germplasm...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant aims to develop a transformative technology that leverages nanoprobes, CRISPR gene-editing, and lab-on-a-chip devices to rapidly and reliably detect Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Disease (ASBVD) in California's $400 million avocado industry. This...

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 Project Grant award of $1,150,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) supports research to develop and validate genetic markers for detecting Fusarium oxysporum pathogens that threaten numerous crop plants. The goal is to create a bioinformatic method to efficiently identify and develop these detection markers across ten different host plants, enabling faster and more...

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,...

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...

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...

This $999,656 Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) aims to develop an integrated field-to-report system for rapid and effective plant disease diagnostics. The key products and services to be delivered include: Capacity building to equip a National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) laboratory for high-throughput molecular virus testing of large volumes of potato tuber samples (Objective...