Project Grant AIDBFSIO1200004

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant aims to develop a transformative technology that leverages nanoprobes, CRISPR gene-editing, and lab-on-a-chip devices to rapidly and reliably detect Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Disease (ASBVD) in California's $400 million avocado industry. This...

This $5,049,441 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (CFDA 10.309) funds a multi-disciplinary research and extension project to address the serious problem of laurel wilt disease affecting avocado production in Florida, Texas, and other states. The project, conducted by a team led by the University of Florida, aims to develop cost-effective measures to manage this disease through new research in areas such as pest management, plant...

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), under the CFDA Program 10.025 "Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care", provides $217,160 in funding to support the work of Dr. Pedro Rendon, a leading global expert on fruit fly mass-rearing and sterile insect techniques (SIT). The purpose of this award is to provide technical assistance and expertise to APHIS and state fruit fly...

The University of California, Davis received a $750,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2024, supports a 3-year research project to characterize the population diversity and environmental persistence of Ralstonia plant pathogens that cause bacterial wilt disease in major American food crops like potato, tomato, banana, and peanut. The project will involve collecting and...

<p>This $145,839 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) supports the University of Hawaii's project to DEVELOP A PROTEIN FOOD ODOR-BASED CHEMICAL LURE FOR FEMALE ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY. The project aims to make agricultural research discoveries and provide scientific and technical information to improve pest control methods. The award has an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2024.</p>

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) will receive $268,951 under a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to mass produce, release, and assess biological control releases of Tamarixia radiata against the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Louisiana from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024. Deliverables under the award will include the numbers of beneficial insects...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $137,036.00 and funded 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), aims to better understand the scope and pathogenesis of viroids in potato and litchi tomato. The key activities include determining the pathogenesis and time-course of tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid (TCDVD) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVD)...

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 $1,000,000 to Texas A&amp;M AgriLife Research to develop augmented reality (AR) training experiences for animal health emergency responders. The project aims to create on-demand training that can be accessed by Foreign Animal Disease Diagnosticians (FADDs) and other field...

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $225,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant will support research from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025 to better understand how plants perceive plant-derived and microbe-derived peptides in order to improve rice disease resistance. Specifically, the funding will allow the...