Project Grant 5930501010

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Clemson University's Division of Research received a $294,000 Project Grant award effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028, from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) to advance cotton breeding and genetics research. The project will functionally characterize candidate genes underlying cottonseed oil, protein, and fiber quality traits while developing novel genetic...

Federal Grant Award Summary Tennessee Technological University received a $450,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The award supports a three-year cotton breeding research initiative to develop Super Green Cotton (SGC) cultivars utilizing natural genetic variation from introgression breeding between...

Auburn University was awarded a $114,000 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to establish infrastructure for developing prediction tools for diseases affecting cotton. This award falls under the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), which supports scientific and technical efforts to attain agricultural research goals and provide information to inform management...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will provide research services under a $160,000 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The award's project period is from April 1, 2021 through October 1, 2024. Under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), the University will conduct research related to "Digital and Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Water and Salinity...

Federal Grant Award Summary Clemson University's Division of Research received a $799,997 Project Grant award dated February 15, 2026, from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) to develop molecular breeding tools for water-use-efficient cotton varieties. The project, which extends through February 14, 2031, directly addresses a priority identified by the Cotton Trust Protocol to improve water-use...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $2.01 million cooperative agreement to Mississippi State University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001). The award will support pilot level research and development of bioproducts manufacturing, processing, and evaluation technology. As part of its basic and applied agricultural research mission, the funding will allow Mississippi State...

This $200,323.63 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Texas Tech University on Fusarium wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (FOV) in cotton. The project aims to identify genetic polymorphisms and gene expression characteristics related to FOV resistance in cotton...

Federal Grant Award Summary HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology received a $294,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) (CFDA 10.310) program, awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. The project delivers a comprehensive cotton pan-genome resource that consolidates and standardizes existing upland cotton reference genomes to enable more effective identification of genomic...

The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will provide research services under a $160,000 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The award's project title is "Digital and Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Water and Salinity Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions." Funded through the Agricultural Research Service's Central Program Planning Coordination and Support competitive grants program, the...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $474,670 to the State of Arizona (operating as the AZ Cotton Council) on September 30, 2025, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award supports continued development and implementation of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) as a pest control method targeting the navel orangeworm (NOW) in tree nut orchards....