Project Grant 20246701342781
Award Date 9/15/24
Completion Date 9/14/27
Dollars Obligated $750K
Federal Agency
Federal Grant Program
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Davis, CA, USA
Similar Awards
- This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to understand how the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum survives in water. The University of California, Davis is conducting high-throughput genetic screening to identify the genes that enable this pathogen to persist in aquatic environments, with the goal of developing new management strategies to...
- The University of California, Davis has been awarded a $225,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant program. The funding will support research to investigate target genes that contribute to the growth of pathogenic bacteria inside plant hosts, with the goal of developing control strategies to limit the spread and severity of bacterial plant diseases. This research, taking place from June 1, 2024 to September 14,...
- The University of California, Davis has been awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to conduct research on how microbial warfare leads to the ecological success of plant pathogens. This 5-year "IGNITE Career Project" will shed light on devastating wilt diseases that impact major food crops like potato, tomato, banana, and peanut. The project leverages innovative computational and synthetic...
- This $180,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) aims to advance the understanding of Clavibacter, a genus of gram-positive, xylem-colonizing bacteria that includes important plant pathogens. The project will identify and characterize a receptor for a Clavibacter-secreted effector, marking the discovery of the first plant receptor for a gram-positive bacterium. It will...
- This $748,123 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant awarded to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) aims to elucidate the genetic mechanisms and identify factors contributing to root-knot nematode outbreaks in resistant tomato plants. The project will use comparative genomics to investigate the fitness costs associated with resistance-breaking nematode populations, and develop rapid diagnostic tools to identify resistant...
- The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $649,990 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant, effective July 1, 2024, supports research to understand how plant pathogens called Liberibacters evade and suppress plant immune responses. The project aims to generate knowledge about Liberibacter effector proteins and their mechanisms of altering plant immunity,...
- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to elucidate the biosynthesis and ecological importance of anti-herbivory acylhexoses in the Solanaceae plant family. The research will combine plant biochemistry, analytical chemistry, plant transformation, and plant-insect interaction studies to provide a fundamental understanding of the molecular...
- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) on May 1, 2023 through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310). Under the three-year award concluding on April 30, 2026, UC Davis will conduct research to understand how the movement protein of the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus causes disease and...
- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $585,643 federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The goal of this 4-year award is to expand knowledge of genetic resistance to multiple fruit rot pathogens affecting strawberries and develop tools to identify and select for favorable traits. The research will: 1) assess the availability of disease-resistant germplasm in...
- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $906,707 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant period is from May 15, 2023 through May 14, 2026. Under the award, UC Davis will provide mechanistic insights into the chemical ecology of plant root microbiomes. The university will define the chemical specificities of bacterial...