Cooperative Agreement AP26PPQST00C148

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the University of Florida $124,783 in a Cooperative Agreement effective September 1, 2026, to validate a high-throughput sequencing protocol for detecting viruses in strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry/blackberry crops through an inter-laboratory comparison. The project brings together three laboratories—University of California Davis Foundation Plant Services, University of Arkansas Clean Plant Center, and Plant...

This Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the United States 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 primary purpose of this $168,300 award is to identify high-risk strawberry viruses by production region within the U.S., with the objective of developing evidence-based information on monitoring and best management practices to exclude viruses and...

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 program (CFDA 10.025) provides $210,000 to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) to support activities related to the National Clean Plant Network for Sweetpotato (NCPN-SP). The primary objectives are to provide clean sweetpotato cultivars and breeding lines from LSU AgCenter...

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded the California Department of Food and Agriculture a $223,705 cooperative agreement on July 1, 2026, to conduct a commodity-based survey targeting high-risk pests associated with berry production in California. CDFA will execute a proactive pest-detection program across four of California's highest-producing strawberry counties from April through September 2026, with survey completion by June 30, 2027. The survey targets strawberry...

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $280,000 cooperative agreement to New York State Agriculture & Markets on September 29, 2026, to conduct a stone fruit commodity survey targeting early detection of plum fruit moth, European grapevine moth, and plum pox virus in New York. The survey employs traps and lures for insect detection, supplemented by visual inspection, and serological (ELISA) assays on asymptomatic leaf tissue samples for plum pox virus detection. Twelve...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research a cooperative agreement valued at $166,886 on September 30, 2026, to research the spread of citrus black spot pathogen (Phyllosticta citricarpa) within and between citrus groves in Florida. The research comprises two primary experimental components: determining how long the pathogen's conidia survive on agricultural equipment in the presence or absence of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $100,971 Cooperative Agreement to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 1-year award, effective July 1, 2024, is to develop high-throughput sequencing methods to rapidly detect and identify members of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex...

Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $205,355 Cooperative Agreement to the University of California, Davis, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award supports research to improve virus detection techniques and update quarantine measures for strawberry (Fragaria) and blackberry/raspberry...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the California Department of Food & Agriculture a cooperative agreement valued at $4,987,600 on October 1, 2025, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award funds surveillance, trapping, and preliminary screening for Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Huanglongbing (HLB), sweet orange scab (SOS), citrus yellow vein clearing virus (CYVCV), and other citrus...