The University of Florida was awarded a $649,934 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research securing resilient food production and safeguarding ecosystem services in agroecosystems under increasing climate variability. The three-year award, made under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program, will fund determination of how precipitation variability, grazing, and land management...
The University of Florida (UF), through its Division of Sponsored Research, has been awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001). The award, effective September 17, 2023 through September 16, 2024, will fund UF's research project to evaluate symbiont technology for agricultural applications. As one of the nation's leading research institutions, UF will leverage its expertise...
The University of Texas at Arlington will provide services to monitor greenhouse gas emissions using an intelligent crop sensor network under a $129,964 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The award's period of performance is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding supports the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which aims to make agricultural...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Oklahoma State University a $130,360 cooperative agreement under the ARPA-E program (CFDA 81.135) to develop an integrated imaging and modeling toolbox for accelerated development of root-focused crops at field scales. The period of performance for the agreement was from February 7, 2022 to April 11, 2023. Under the award, Oklahoma State University will create hardware and software tools to test, validate, and...
The University of Florida will receive $650,000 under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research comparing alternative biotechnology approaches for complete suppression of flowering in energycane. The research aims to elevate biocontainment of energycane by preventing gene flow to sexually compatible weedy relatives and inform regulators about the precision and effectiveness of alternative approaches....
The University of Florida (UF) has been awarded a $749,785 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The 3-year project aims to enhance the sustainability of farming by integrating perennial grasses and cover crops into traditional crop rotations, along with optimal grazing practices. This approach will be tested at two field sites in North Florida to compare it...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $1,900,000.00, was issued by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to the University of Florida. The award, titled "NICKEL FARMING - IMPROVING A US-NATIVE HYPERACCUMULATOR PLANT FOR COMMERCIAL CULTIVATION", aims to conduct research and development to improve a U.S.-native hyperaccumulator plant for commercial cultivation of nickel. The project will be conducted at the University of Florida's facilities in Gainesville,...
The University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research was awarded a $5,000,000 Project Grant from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to develop safe, effective, and affordable feed additives to reduce enteric methane emissions from the U.S. livestock industry. The project aims to produce and purify immunogens and 2-hydroxyethylphosphonate (HEP) compounds, optimize their dosage and impact on the rumen microbiome, deploy the new additives, and conduct...
The University of Florida (UF) was awarded a $3,070,919 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to develop a 3.3kV/200A 70kHz half-bridge silicon carbide (SiC) power module with low electromagnetic interference, low power loss, improved thermal management, and high reliability. This project aims to create advanced SiC power module technologies that can enable the wide adoption of SiC components in future power grid applications. As part of...
The University of Florida was awarded a $650,000 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 (AFRI, CFDA #10.310). The three-year grant will fund research into the biosynthesis of flavonoids in sorghum plants, which produce compounds that protect against stresses from climate change and have potential health benefits. Specifically, the university will...