Cooperative Agreement 5950902007

The University of California, Davis will receive $824,440 under a Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to apply advanced phenotypic and genomic tools to improve flavor, nutrition, and production traits in carrot between September 15, 2022 and August 14, 2026. This award from the USDA ARS will support research conducted under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, which...

This $591,497 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support the development of haploid inducer lines for carrot and a pilot breeding study to evaluate their potential to accelerate hybrid cultivar development. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will utilize gene editing to introduce targeted mutations into a gene controlling chromosome function,...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $207,198 cooperative agreement to Washington State University from September 15, 2022 through August 14, 2026 under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001). The agreement supports applying advanced phenotypic and genomic tools to improve flavor, nutrition, and production traits in carrot in Pasco, Washington. The Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program aims to make...

North Carolina State University received a $637,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve anthocyanin yield, stability, and standardization from purple carrots. Funded through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program, this four-year project aims to leverage genotyping and phenotyping capabilities to select carrot cultivars optimized for anthocyanin content and profiles....

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Carolina State University a $442,271 cooperative agreement from the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) for the period of September 15, 2022 through August 14, 2026. The award will support research efforts to apply advanced phenotypic and genomic tools to improve flavor, nutrition, and production traits in carrot. As part of the Agricultural Research Service's mission to make agricultural...

The University of Arizona was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year grant will fund research into the genetic factors influencing seed development in Brassica rapa, a close relative of canola. The grantee has previously identified B. rapa mutants lacking RNA-directed DNA methylation that exhibit severe reductions in...

This $175,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) SBIR/STTR program supports Nutramaize LLC's research to develop commercial orange sweet corn hybrids with high levels of health-benefitting antioxidant carotenoids. The goal is to leverage the popular, affordable sweet corn format to increase carotenoid consumption and help protect public health, as low carotenoid intake increases the risk of age-related macular...

This is a $3,499,999 federal Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) to Cornell University. The grant aims to develop new, distinct organic vegetable cultivars through wide, natural cross-pollination between different vegetable types. This "NOVA" (New Approaches for Organic Vegetables) project will focus on brassicas, cucurbits, and peppers, with the goal of delivering exciting new organic vegetable varieties...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Cornell University a $180,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The three-year award will fund research to understand the interplay between provitamin A and starch metabolism in cassava plants. The goal is to provide breeding strategies to international cassava programs to develop varieties that are both nutritionally enriched with provitamin A and...

This $1,100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to study the genetic and chemical processes that facilitate the diversity of specialized metabolites, such as glucosinolates, across plant species in the Brassicales order. The 5-year project at the University of California, Davis aims to identify key biosynthetic genes and understand how genetic diversity drives the creation of unique plant compounds that...