Project Grant 201633610256691

Ridge Quest Inc. was awarded a $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an improved mating disruption product for oriental fruit moth. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through federal research funding. Under the award, Ridge Quest will develop a new mating disruption product called Tangler OFM that utilizes a bolas-style capsule to rapidly and...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), is intended to optimize the use of male annihilation techniques to eradicate Medfly (Ceratitis capitata) infestations. The $392,448 project will test a new commercial product, ISCA's HOOK TML, to determine the optimal application densities for efficient Medfly...

Novoclade, Inc. received a $181,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The funding supports the development of an innovative insect control method using genetically engineered sterile male Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies. Novoclade's approach aims to simplify the implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for SWD, a major agricultural pest causing an...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) awarded a $324,988 Project Grant under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) to North Carolina State University (NC State). The grant aims to enhance Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices for sustainable production of brassica crops through the use of pheromone-mediated mating disruption to manage the diamondback moth (DBM), a significant global pest of...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), supports the development of Lepidext, Inc.'s novel biological pest control solution, InsterushZ. The $650,000 grant, awarded on Sep 1, 2024, aims to increase the production and deployment of InsterushZ, a sexually transmitted virus that can suppress...

The purpose of this $160,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded 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) is to validate the efficiency and sensitivity of an area-wide bulk triage screening protocol for Huanglongbing (HLB), a devastating plant disease. The award to Technology Evolving Solutions, a for-profit manufacturer, aims to take the first steps in obtaining...

This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research (BRAG) Grants Program (CFDA 10.219), provides $650,000 to North Carolina State University (NC State) to develop and evaluate homing gene drive systems targeting three insect pests: spotted wing drosophila, sweetpotato pest drosophila, and the new world screwworm. The goal is to create dominant female-sterile gene...

This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research (BRAG) program (CFDA 10.219) provides $649,414 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop tools and technologies for monitoring and improving the use of precision-guided sterile insect technique (PGSIT) and other CRISPR-based genetic technologies to control the spotted wing drosophila pest. Key deliverables include: A diagnostic system called...

This $189,313.00 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) aims to improve control of the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) through the development of genetically modified sterile flies. The key objectives are to double sterile fly production while reducing costs and safety hazards associated with traditional irradiation methods. The...

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) aims to automate the filtering and rearing system for the black pupal strain of Mexican fruit fly. The $564,462 project, awarded to the University of Hawaii at Hilo, will develop an imaging system and machine learning software to classify pupae by color and adults by sex, enabling...