Project Grant 20257000645154
- This $324,904 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) will advance integrated pest management (IPM) for berry crops threatened by the invasive spotted-wing drosophila fly. The project, led by Michigan State University, will combine fruit sampling techniques to inform management decisions with research on the biological control agents developing...
- 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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $216,700.00 to North Carolina State University to advance research on integrated pest management, genetic control technology, surveillance technology, and regulatory entomology for several invasive insect species. The key activities include supporting the evaluation of...
- 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...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), will fund research to develop yeast-based RNA interference (RNAi) pesticides targeting the invasive spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) pest. The $325,000 award to Michigan State University aims to create a new class of stakeholder-accepted, species-specific insecticides that can be deployed as baits or...
- This $3,996,373 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (CFDA 10.309) aims to create resilient integrated pest management (IPM) programs for eastern tree fruit enterprises. The award recipient, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northeast Area, will lead a transdisciplinary team of researchers and extension specialists in entomology, horticulture, economics, and social...
- This $180,000 federal Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The funding supports research to investigate the sources of variation in breeding, mating behavior, and genetics across multiple populations of fruit-infesting fly species that are agricultural pests. The research aims to provide critical insights into the variability among...
- This five-year, $2.5 million project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA No. 10.310 program will fund research at Cornell University to understand and control disease spillover in bee communities. The project aims to collect empirical contact data from plant-pollinator networks, quantify disease transmission parameters, and develop dynamic models of disease spread and...
- This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $132,434 to North Carolina State University to advance research in the development of area-wide genetic control technology for suppression of the spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii). This invasive agricultural pest causes significant economic losses for...
- This five-year, $649,977 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at North Carolina State University to develop an automated, repeatable process for mapping host crop species essential to forecasting the spread of invasive plant pests and pathogens. Using machine learning and publicly available imagery, the researchers will build...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) will support a research project at North Carolina State University to address the impacts of the invasive Spotted-wing Drosophila fruit fly on caneberry production in the United States. The key objectives are to: 1) Quantify bee pesticide exposure during caneberry bloom and harvesting, 2) Assess gut parasite infections in adult bees and larvae, and 3) Determine the physiological impact and survival of resident pollinators. This applied research aims to provide critical insights for developing integrated pest management (IPM) protocols and sustainable management practices to enhance caneberry yields, while protecting beneficial insect populations. The project will be conducted over a 3-year period from September 2025 through August 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $200.0k | 8/28/25 |