Project Grant 1632575

Federal Grant Award Summary Novin Agritech LLC received a $174,906 Project Grant from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) on September 15, 2025, for a 9-month project concluding May 14, 2026. The company will develop genetically improved wheat varieties with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency through advanced gene editing and genetic engineering technologies. Specifically, the project will design and...

This Project Grant award, totaling $225,000.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.310). The funding supports a research project led by Oregon State University to investigate how wheat cultivars and their associated microbial communities, or microbiomes, can be leveraged to enhance yield and improve resilience to abiotic and...

This $585,414 Project Grant award was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The award supports research at Oklahoma State University (OSU) to address key challenges in hard winter wheat production, including identifying disease resistance genes and developing high-throughput phenotyping capabilities to rapidly screen for barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. The project aims to map resistance...

Montana State University received a $644,293 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project aims to develop new wheat varieties with increased biomass and seed yield through genetic modifications to the Teosinte Branched 1 gene, which influences tiller production in cereal plants. The university will create new spring, winter, and...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), aims to develop a new method for producing hybrid seeds in wheat and barley. The $649,976 award to the University of California, Davis will leverage advanced gene editing (CRISPR) and plant transformation techniques to induce conditional male sterility in diverse varieties of bread wheat and barley. This research...

This $649,998 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports the research and development of Global Neighbor, Inc.'s Directed Energy Seed Priming (DESP) system. The key objectives are to finalize the DESP design, validate its field performance through on-farm trials, prepare for commercial launch, and disseminate the findings within the agricultural community. The...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Dakota State University a $371,333 Project Grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to conduct wheat breeding for enhanced Fusarium head blight resistance in North Dakota. The grant period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026 and will support research to develop wheat varieties with improved resistance to Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease that reduces wheat yields and...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $300,000.00 and provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to conduct greenhouse and laboratory research to evaluate the growth, developmental, and genetic basis of spring wheat response to multigenerational exposure to weed competition. The key objectives are to: (i) assess growth and developmental changes in wheat, (ii) evaluate hormonal...

Accelerated AG Technologies LLC received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The award was provided under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to support the development of collection and preservation technology to enable on-demand pollination in commercial hybrid wheat systems. The SBIR/STTR programs are intended to...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded Napigen Inc. a $175,000 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to develop rice plants with herbicide resistance genes integrated into the mitochondrial genome. This innovative approach aims to prevent the transfer of herbicide resistance to weeds through pollen, addressing a major challenge for rice farmers globally. Napigen's proposed project...