The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $165,228 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support research on breeding Fusarium head blight resistant spring and winter barley from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The grant is being administered under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, which provides funding for scientific discoveries and...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a two-year, $182,019 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a mineral rover for quantifying Fusarium head blight (FHB) severity in wheat and barley field experiments. Objectives of the research include using the rover to phenotype FHB severity, developing models to quantify FHB from imaged plots,...
This Project Grant award of $225,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to examine the distribution and prevalence of transposable genetic elements, called "starships," within Fusarium fungi that cause Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease in cereal crops like wheat and barley. The project aims to determine if Fusarium species causing FHB contain more of these transposable elements compared to...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $175,000 cooperative agreement award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support to conduct research on stem rust of oat and bacterial leaf streak of wheat from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2025. This award falls under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which supports making agricultural...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $154,631 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support research developing scab resistant wheat and barley via genomics from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The award is being used to fund research under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which supports making agricultural research...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Dakota State University a $123,008 Project Grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024. The grant will fund research to study microbiome antagonism of Fusarium head blight. As part of the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program's goal of making agricultural research discoveries and providing scientific and technical...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Dakota State University a $371,333 Project Grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to conduct wheat breeding for enhanced Fusarium head blight resistance in North Dakota. The grant period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026 and will support research to develop wheat varieties with improved resistance to Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease that reduces wheat yields and...
This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service provides $114,482 to South Dakota State University for research on Fusarium head blight (FHB) management in wheat in South Dakota. The award period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. As the prime awardee, South Dakota State University will conduct research to develop and evaluate strategies for managing FHB, a fungal disease that reduces wheat yields and quality. This work supports the goals...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded North Dakota State University a $608,409 Project Grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to develop malting barley with reduced Fusarium head blight (FHB) and deoxynivalenol (DON) from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The grant will support research and development of malting barley varieties with enhanced resistance to FHB and lower levels of DON contamination through fungal...
This Project Grant award, valued at $849,702.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The project aims to investigate the dynamic interactions within the barley microbiome during Fusarium head blight (FHB) infection. Key objectives include establishing the barley phyllosphere as a model system for studying microbiome assembly mechanisms, determining the...