This $210,000 Project Grant was awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329). The funding supports a one-year initiative led by the University of Tennessee's Agriculture Extension Service to provide stakeholders with knowledge and recommendations for effective, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) practices. The key activities...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $642,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to the University of Tennessee to develop crop plant resistance to insect pests through production of juvenile hormone III as a hormonal insecticide. Over a four-year period from June 2023 through May 2027, the University will identify genes in the sedge plant Cyperus iria that encode enzymes in the JH III...
The University of Tennessee received a $324,400 Project Grant award from the USDA's Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) to develop improved monitoring systems for stored product insect pests. The key objectives are: 1) optimizing traps for automated insect detection, 2) creating digital floor plan mapping of infested areas using advanced sensors and robotics, and 3) stakeholder engagement to beta-test the automated trap system. The project aims...
This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Scholarships for Students at 1890 Institutions Program (CFDA 10.524) provides $505,263.16 in funding to Tennessee State University over a four-year period from July 2024 to July 2028. The project aims to increase enrollment, retention, and completion of baccalaureate degrees in food, agricultural, and natural resource sciences for academically talented,...
This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants Program (CFDA 10.216) provides $449,983 to Tennessee State University to develop a cost-effective and user-friendly indoor phenotyping system for monitoring crop conditions in greenhouses. The system, which leverages artificial intelligence and advanced imaging, aims to bridge the gap between traditional and smart farming practices by providing real-time...
This $10,754,216 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Payments to 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Tuskegee University program (CFDA 10.205) supports agricultural research, extension, and educational activities at Tennessee State University, a historically Black land-grant institution. The funding enables the university's Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research to conduct research addressing critical...
Tennessee State University was awarded a $590,726 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research on the relationship between resistance to the crapemyrtle aphid and powdery mildew in crapemyrtle under different growing conditions. The grant was awarded on June 1, 2023 with a completion date of May 31, 2026. The grant falls under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants program (CFDA #10.216), which aims to...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The goal of this 1-year project (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025) is to develop transdisciplinary integrated pest management (IPM) programs that leverage the latest scientific information to help stakeholders in Georgia and the...
This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture will fund research at Tennessee State University from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026 in the amount of $595,249. The grant is being awarded under the 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants program (CFDA #10.216), which aims to build research and teaching capacity at 1890 land-grant institutions. Under this award, Tennessee State University will screen cyanobacterial extracts and...
This $639,875 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at Texas A&M Agrilife Research to improve understanding of plant-microbe-insect interactions and their implications for sustainable pest management. Specifically, the grant will support identification of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) combinations that induce...