Cooperative Agreement 5950909001F

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 Agricultural Research Service was awarded a $3.9 million Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative program. The four-year grant aims to apply advanced phenotypic and genomic tools to improve flavor, nutrition, and production traits in carrot. The Specialty Crop Research Initiative program addresses critical needs of the specialty crop industry through research and extension grants that help tackle challenges of national,...

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...

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....

This $10 million Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310), will fund development of an integrated hydroponic controlled environment agriculture platform for sustainable cultivation of salt-tolerant food crops using saline irrigation water. Clemson University will lead pre-breeding of mustard greens, cucumber, and tomato varieties for salt tolerance, as well as...

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...

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 $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to identify and re-engineer genes involved in environmental stress tolerance in plants. The goal is to cultivate higher-yielding, climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the food demands of a growing...

This four-year, $2.99 million Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) federal grant program (CFDA 10.307), funds research and outreach activities to enhance the viability and sustainability of the organic dry bean industry in the Northeast and Upper Midwestern United States. Cornell University serves as the lead awardee, coordinating efforts with four sub-awardee...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports a project led by Tennessee State University (TSU) to develop climate-resilient tomato production systems for small farms in Tennessee. The key objectives are to: 1) Develop a climate-resilient tomato production system (CRTPS) involving heat-tolerant tomato varieties, grafted tomato plants, and...