Project Grant 201133610311661

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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) aims to restore Roseau cane (Phragmites australis) stands in the Mississippi River Delta. The $778,745 award supports two applied research projects over a 2-year period from September 2024 to September 2026. The first project focuses on understanding the microbial...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $174,746 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Glanris Water Systems Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, to develop a low-cost, easily manufactured modified biochar that can adsorb plant nutrients. The goal is to use this biochar to remediate agricultural runoff and wastewater, removing harmful phosphate and nitrate,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (CFDA #10.025 - Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care) aims to develop a synthetic odor blend to serve as a novel tool for managing and detecting invasive gastropod species. The primary objectives are to: 1) identify the volatile chemical compounds in fermenting bread dough that are attractive to the invasive snail pest Cornu aspersum, and 2) compile one or more...

This cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $602,652 to Bioprodex, Inc. to gather data for the registration of Verticillium nonalfalfae as a bioherbicide to control tree-of-heaven weed (Ailanthus altissima), a key host plant for the regulated pest spotted lanternfly. The award period is from May 1, 2022 through October 31, 2023. The work supports the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal...

The purpose of this $414,782 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) is to gather data for the registration of the bioherbicide Verticillium nonalfalfae to control the tree-of-heaven weed (Ailanthus altissima). This research is significant as the tree-of-heaven is a key host plant for the spotted lanternfly, a regulated...

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Research Units program award of $261,042.37 to Auburn University will fund a 3-year project to study the toxicity of different life stages of Cahaba River mudsnails to potassium, chloride, and nickel. The project aims to establish a protocol for toxicology testing of contaminants using mudsnails and determine how organism life stage affects the toxicity of these chemicals to three mudsnail species. The resulting data will be summarized in tables and...

The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) to conduct research improving crop yield and soil carbon accumulation in Louisiana soybean and corn production through the use of sugarcane bagasse biochar. The grant period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The award is provided through the USDA NRCS Farm and Ranch Lands...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, totaling $250,000, supports research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to develop effective and safe pesticide formulations for protecting crops from fungal diseases. Under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee will identify naturally produced molecules with enhanced fungicidal activity against Botrytis cinerea and Phakopsora pachyrhizi, major pathogens causing billions in annual crop...

This $258,666 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the CFDA 10.025 Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program supports the mass production, distribution, and evaluation of the biological control agent Lilioceris egena for control of air potato, an invasive weed. The key activities under this agreement include: 1) increasing laboratory rearing capacity for L. egena, 2) conducting field...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $194,921, issued by 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), aims to develop environmentally safe and effective biological control methods for citrus canker and citrus black spot diseases. The award to Texas A&M University-Kingsville will support activities such as isolating and culturing candidate beneficial microbes,...