Project Grant 20247000642853
- The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will receive $118,008 through a 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 will fund research from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2025 examining how different cover crop species and mixtures can affect the fitness of the devastating western corn rootworm pest when planted before corn. The university will...
- The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, received a $185,490 Project Grant award from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329). The goal of this 3-year project is to validate the effectiveness of a novel biopesticide to manage fire blight, a critical bacterial disease affecting apple and pear production across the United States. The project...
- This $254,981 Project Grant 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) supports integrated pest management (IPM) implementation efforts in Colorado. The award funds the Colorado Center for Sustainable Pest Management at Colorado State University to address stakeholder needs and priorities through coordinated activities focused on improving the sustainability of pest management...
- This federal Project Grant award of $200,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) aims to develop an integrated pest and pollinator management approach for cucurbit crops. The project will identify cucurbit varieties that naturally repel or resist striped cucumber beetles and pair them with biological or chemical control strategies to decrease reliance on insecticides while enhancing...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $324,982 Project Grant under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA# 10.329) to North Carolina State University. This 2-year grant, awarded on Sep 1, 2023, aims to develop alternative integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for soil insect management in sweetpotato, in response to the regulatory removal of the insecticide chlorpyrifos. The project will...
- This $295,750 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, aims to develop effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for cucurbit production in the Delmarva region. The key objectives are to: 1) determine host plant preferences of cucumber beetles, squash bugs, and vine borers; 2) identify volatile...
- This $325,000 Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) will develop new tools and approaches to better predict and manage fungal foliar diseases in major crops like corn, soybeans, and potatoes. The project will use a combination of low-cost air sampling devices, weather monitoring stations, and DNA sequencing to track disease-causing organisms. This data will be used...
- This $324,979 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.329 Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program) aims to improve phosphine resistance management in insect pest populations in food facilities across multiple states. The key products and services to be delivered include: Optimizing an early warning phosphine resistance screening tool based on recessive allele frequency Conducting a survey of...
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), provides $325,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) to conduct research on developing biological control strategies for two key agricultural pests - spotted wing drosophila (SWD) and apple maggot fly (AMF). The key products and services to be delivered under this...
- This $180,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) will support research at The Pennsylvania State University to investigate plant host resistance against the invasive swede midge pest in cole crops such as broccoli and cabbage. The key objectives are to: (1) identify differences in defense mechanisms between broccoli cultivars, (2) assess resistance/susceptibility across...
This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program, CFDA 10.329, provides $199,157 to The Pennsylvania State University for a 2-year project to develop sustainable crop protection strategies using plant-derived bioactive compounds to manage the invasive fall armyworm pest in corn and sorghum. The project aims to study the effectiveness of bioactive compounds from cultivars of corn and sorghum as potential deterrents to the fall armyworm. Field and laboratory testing will analyze plant volatile compounds and insect behaviors to inform the development of novel "push-pull" integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. The project also plans to provide training to students and researchers on the use of plant bioactives for crop protection. The results are expected to enable the integration of novel corn and sorghum crop varieties into sustainable agricultural production programs.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $199.2k | 7/27/24 |