The Pennsylvania State University received a $179,748 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will fund research into the impact of varying soil textures on carbon storage and microbial communities under changing precipitation patterns. Penn State researchers will conduct a controlled laboratory...
This $1,932,974 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) aims to improve the productivity and market potential of organic small grains in Pennsylvania and the Northeast US. The key objectives are to: Assess interactions between soil management, fertility, and integrated weed management to optimize spring oat production. Evaluate how soil management and cultivar mixtures impact yield stability of fall- and...
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will receive $154,000 under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The award is being provided through NIFA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), which aims to support fundamental and applied scientific research, extension, and education addressing food and agricultural sciences. Specifically, Penn State will examine rates of parasitism by Conopid flies...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $649,999 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year project aims to develop effective strategies and tools to assist small and medium-sized forest and woodland owners in managing and sustaining their timberlands for ecosystem services. Specifically, Penn State researchers will evaluate...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $1,247,490 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture on September 15, 2022 to complete work by September 14, 2026. The funding supports research into the genetic basis of maize response to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310). The AFRI program aims to provide funding for fundamental and applied...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. This grant aims to elucidate the organisms and microbial-mediated mechanisms associated with controlling the fungal pathogen Verticillium dahlia race 1 in distinct disease-suppressive soils. The project includes three key objectives: 1) identifying the microbial taxa and functions...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, was awarded a $647,143 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program. The grant, effective from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2027, will fund research to investigate the impact of updated Nutrition Facts labels on consumer food choices, product reformulations by food companies, and overall diet quality in the...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant will be used to develop an integrated modeling framework to understand nitrate dynamics and generate spatially and temporally continuous daily nitrate concentration data in agricultural watersheds. This data will be used to evaluate ecosystem health and...
Penn State University was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year grant will fund research to design more effective cover crop mixtures that provide ecosystem services. Specifically, Penn State researchers will evaluate how seeding rates of three cover crop species interact with environmental conditions to determine...
Penn State University received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2027 to test the hypothesis that overactivation of the androgen membrane receptor ZIP9 in cattle ovarian cells will lead to ovarian fibrosis, altered gene expression and impaired ovarian function. The...