Project Grant 20256701344497
- This $650,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Marquette University to improve cold stress tolerance in rice. Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Schlüppi and co-PIs Dr. Georgia Eizenga of the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Dr. Jeremy Edwards will utilize rice diversity panels and mapping populations to identify genetic...
- This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) program aims to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to transform wheat breeding and develop drought-tolerant wheat varieties. The project, titled "AI-ENGAGE: HARNESSING AI FOR PRECISION GENOMIC SELECTION MODELS IN WHEAT", will integrate genetic markers, environmental factors, and plant growth measurements to predict wheat performance using...
- This $585,414 Project Grant award was provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The award supports research at Oklahoma State University (OSU) to address key challenges in hard winter wheat production, including identifying disease resistance genes and developing high-throughput phenotyping capabilities to rapidly screen for barley yellow dwarf virus resistance. The project aims to map resistance...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $300,000.00 and provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to conduct greenhouse and laboratory research to evaluate the growth, developmental, and genetic basis of spring wheat response to multigenerational exposure to weed competition. The key objectives are to: (i) assess growth and developmental changes in wheat, (ii) evaluate hormonal...
- This federal Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will provide $225,000 to Cornell University to conduct research on improving corn's tolerance to cold stress. The research aims to 1) determine how mitochondrial calcium transportation impacts corn's cold response and tolerance, and 2) identify genetic sequences or motifs that promote gene translation under cold stress in corn. The...
- This $476,610 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program will fund the establishment of a large multi-environment wheat trial called the BIG6. The Ohio State University will lead the effort in collaboration with sub-awardees Cornell University, Michigan State University, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the University of Illinois, and Purdue...
- This Project Grant award, totaling $225,000.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.310). The funding supports a research project led by Oregon State University to investigate how wheat cultivars and their associated microbial communities, or microbiomes, can be leveraged to enhance yield and improve resilience to abiotic and...
- This $180,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to identify and re-engineer genes involved in environmental stress tolerance in plants. The goal is to cultivate higher-yielding, climate-resilient crop varieties that can sustainably meet the food demands of a growing...
- This $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) supports research to improve the breadmaking quality of triticale grain. Led by the University of California, Davis from Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2026, the collaborative network aims to identify genes responsible for loaf volume in select triticale lines and incorporate favorable wheat breadmaking genes into...
- This $294,000 federal Project Grant award to Kansas State University (KSU), under the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), supports a 3-year research project to advance the science of sustainable intensification of wheat production. The key objectives are to: (1) conduct a comprehensive literature review on sustainable intensification of major crops globally, (2) perform economic and life cycle assessments of...
This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research to improve wheat's tolerance to cold temperatures. The project, conducted by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, aims to use cutting-edge single-cell genomics and artificial intelligence to identify genetic markers that can be used in breeding programs to develop wheat varieties more resilient to extreme cold weather events. The ultimate goal is to help ensure more stable global food production by enhancing wheat's ability to withstand severe winter conditions. This 3-year project, with a performance period from November 15, 2025 to November 14, 2028, will collaborate with a leading European wheat breeding company to test the research findings in controlled environments and real-world field trials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $800.0k | 11/18/25 |