Cooperative Agreement 72068819CA00001

This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program, CFDA 10.329, provides $199,157 to The Pennsylvania State University for a 2-year project to develop sustainable crop protection strategies using plant-derived bioactive compounds to manage the invasive fall armyworm pest in corn and sorghum. The project aims to study the effectiveness of bioactive compounds from cultivars of corn and...

Agrospheres, Inc. received a $1.5 million cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel pest management solution for control of fall armyworm. The four-year award, issued on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will support Agrosphere's efforts to deliver bioengineered dsRNA particles targeting fall armyworm using its proprietary bioparticle...

The Ohio State University was awarded an $868,104 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The grant funds the FORAGE project to address challenges from the invasive fall armyworm pest for alfalfa growers and educators in the eastern Corn Belt region. Key activities include revising development and life cycle...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under CFDA 10.025 - Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program aims to develop a biological control strategy to combat the potential establishment of the invasive Old World Cotton Bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) in North America. The $201,208 award supports research by Lepidext, Inc. to assess the efficacy of a sterilizing nudivirus (HZNV2 isolate...

This $400,000 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, supports entomological surveillance, insecticide-treated bed net durability monitoring, and routine monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy and resistance detection activities in Mali. The recipient organization is the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (Usttb) in Mali, a prominent academic...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330) will provide $880,275 to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to test alternative pesticides and non-pesticide control methods to manage the Lygus bug, a major insect pest of alfalfa grown for seed production. The goal is to provide alfalfa seed growers with effective Lygus control recommendations that increase...

This $3,500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) program aims to improve management of the corn earworm pest in sweet corn production. Key activities include: Measuring overwintering success and early season activity of corn earworm, developing a spread model, and monitoring resistance to Bt toxins and insecticides. Improving integrated pest management through better adult moth...

This $324,979 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.329 Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program) aims to improve phosphine resistance management in insect pest populations in food facilities across multiple states. The key products and services to be delivered include: Optimizing an early warning phosphine resistance screening tool based on recessive allele frequency Conducting a survey of...

This Project Grant award of $325,000 from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.329 Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program) supports Texas A&M Agrilife Research's efforts to characterize the relationship between rice plant age and vulnerability to the Mexican rice borer (MRB) pest. The goal is to develop a crop model to guide scouting and treatment decisions for MRB management in rice production along the Gulf Coast. The...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), provides $325,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on developing biological control strategies for two key agricultural pests - spotted wing drosophila (SWD) and apple maggot fly (AMF). The key products and services to be delivered under this...