Project Grant 20236701746110
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $224,809 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion by August 31, 2027. The grant supports research examining how shade gradients in coffee agroforestry systems influence arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities, soil...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Davis received a $849,553 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2029. The research project addresses fundamental mechanisms by which plant immune responses shape microbiome assembly and function, with particular emphasis on how JAZ...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $225,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027. The research initiative focuses on advancing understanding of plant immune receptor diversity and evolution, specifically investigating how CSP22 receptor multicopy ligands impact receptor diversification...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded $1,278,729 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Berkeley for a three-year project (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028) investigating microbial cofactor exchange and its effects on soil ecosystem processes. The primary deliverables include the development of a novel experimental system consisting of customized laboratory chambers that simulate...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $298,287 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), with an award date of February 1, 2026, and completion date of January 31, 2028. This research project develops an environmentally sustainable alternative to chemical nematicide treatments for managing cyst...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received an $849,999 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded February 15, 2026, with a completion date of February 14, 2029. The project focuses on identifying and characterizing the microbial community associated with carrot cavity spot (CCS), a significant fungal...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $1.0 million Project Grant (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) to the University of California, Los Angeles for a three-year research initiative commencing September 1, 2025 and concluding August 31, 2028. The project delivers comprehensive research services focused on identifying and characterizing secondary metabolites produced by plant-associated fungi that mediate...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on September 1, 2025, to support collaborative research on carbon metabolic niches in soil microbiomes for sustainable agriculture. Through this three-year research initiative (completion date: August 31, 2028), Caltech will conduct fundamental and applied research under the NSF Biological Sciences program...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Riverside received a $622,716 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) for a three-year research project (September 1, 2025–August 31, 2028). The project delivers an integrated research initiative combining nematology, economics, and dairy science to develop and optimize cost-effective preplant...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $749,921 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), with performance occurring from March 1, 2026, through February 28, 2029. The award supports research to elucidate the mechanisms of pest resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins in genetically modified crops and...
The University of California, Berkeley received a $328,351.36 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded on March 15, 2026, with a completion date of March 31, 2027. The award supports research to advance sustainable agricultural practices by optimizing beneficial microbial-plant interactions as a mechanism for nutrient delivery to crops. The project addresses the significant variability in performance of commercially available microbial products by investigating how plant root exudates influence microbial colonization and persistence. The primary deliverable is the development of synthetic bacterial communities with plant growth-promoting capabilities and enhanced agronomic performance. The research integrates field-level and computational analyses with laboratory-based experiments, leveraging multivariate phenotypic datasets from a 16-line maize field trial combined with 323 candidate beneficial bacteria to computationally predict co-occurring or exclusionary microbial community members that enhance crop growth and productivity. Secondary deliverables include isolated and characterized microbes characterized through genome sequencing and high-throughput bioassays, quantified nutrient exchange data between plant roots and microbial communities derived from isotopic labeling and metabolite profiling, and fundamental knowledge regarding plant root exudate effects on microbial colonization and persistence phenotypes.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 3/25/26 | ||
| Not listed | $328.4k | 3/13/26 |