Project Grant 5920724002

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has awarded a $315,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Dominican University of California under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The primary purpose of this 1-year agreement, effective July 1, 2024, is for the university to manage a simulated ornamental plant nursery facility that enables research on quarantine pests and pathogens, such as Phytophthora ramorum,...

This $219,994 Cooperative Agreement awarded by 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 funding for the University of Florida's Plant Diagnostic Center to conduct laboratory testing services for the detection of the regulated plant pathogen Phytophthora austrocedrae. The project will process approximately 650 suspect samples during the 12-month award...

This $5,953,802 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) program funds a multi-institutional effort led by New Mexico State University to develop an integrated, system-based approach to significantly reduce the risk of Phytophthora blight in vegetable crops like peppers and cucurbits. The project aims to: 1) evaluate genetic diversity of the causal agent Phytophthora capsici, 2) identify resistant crop genotypes tolerant to...

This Cooperative Agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provides $617,046 to North Carolina State University to continue developing in-field volatile organic compound and microneedle patch-supported loop-mediated isothermal amplification sensors that can differentiate two important plant pathogens, Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae. The award period is from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. These innovations...

Oregon State University was awarded a $220,200 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant aims to develop genomic resources to investigate how the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora pluvialis can adapt to new tree hosts in Pacific Northwest forests. Specific objectives include generating a high-quality reference genome for P. pluvialis, testing if...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the United States 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 $610,099.00 to the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) for phytophthora ramorum quarantine enforcement and survey activities. The key products and services to be delivered include: Inspecting, sampling, and testing P. ramorum host materials from regulated...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $789,777 Project Grant under the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)'s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The funding supports research to elucidate the mechanisms of pathogenicity and host specificity of the devastating plant pathogen Phytophthora palmivora. Key objectives include determining how the pathogenicity factor PPALRXLR1 confers infection capability,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $174,470 Cooperative Agreement to Cornell University under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 12-month project is to improve early detection of existing and newly introduced plant pathogens by providing training workshops and professional development to diagnosticians across the National Plant Diagnostic Network...

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 $1,132,843 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to support efforts to prevent the spread of the Phytophthora ramorum pathogen, the causal agent of Sudden Oak Death, through regulated nursery stock and articles shipped interstate from California. Key...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $104,228 cooperative agreement to the North American Plant Protection Organization from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The agreement supports assessing the potential for permanently preventing the box tree moth from being introduced into the United States. This initiative aligns with the program's goal of protecting U.S....