This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program (CFDA 10.217) will provide $146,795.00 to Michigan State University (MSU) to develop and launch a new fast-track, flexible, accessible, and affordable online Master's program in Plant Breeding. The goal is to train and improve the skills of a diverse pool of students to utilize new tools and technologies to increase...
Cornell University was awarded a $937,638 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 four-year grant will support continued development of the Breeding Application Programming Interface (BRAPI) standard. BRAPI is a standardized specification for RESTful web service APIs in the plant breeding domain that facilitates data interoperability and exchange...
This $725,925 federal Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to Clemson University's Division of Research supports the development of digital tools and standards to enable the integration of high-dimensional plant phenotype (HDPP) data into plant breeding workflows. The project aims to: (A) generate appropriate data models for HDPP data, (B) develop Breeding Application Programming Interface (BrAPI)...
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation received a $765,000 Project Grant award under the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to establish a pan-genome for 13 horse breeds and 3 related equids. The project aims to: Create a pan-genome from haplotype-resolved genome assemblies Annotate the pan-genome using tissue-specific transcriptomic and epigenetic data Develop an integrative genomics portal to provide accessible community data. The project leverages prior...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award of $254,903 to Manzanita Cooperative, Inc. (doing business as Manzanita Bionatives) supports the development of novel, sustainable, climate-resilient food sources through the domestication of Western lupine. The project aims to generate lupine hybrids by introgressing the low-alkaloid "pauper" trait from European white lupine into...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $499,998.00 Project Grant to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The long-term goal of this 4-year project is to develop and publicly release two new dry bean cultivars adapted to Michigan and the Upper Midwest, one each from the black and navy bean market classes. The project will utilize genomic prediction strategies to...
This $118,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to The Trustees of Princeton University supports collaborative research to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids to revive genomic variation in the endangered red wolf. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of red wolf "ghost" ancestry in coyote...
This federal Project Grant award of $251,552, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research at Mississippi State University to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids that carry red wolf "ghost" ancestry. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of this red wolf genetic variation...
Invictus Informatics LLC was awarded a $124,903 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a web-based data management system and companion database for livestock breeders and associations. The system will provide affordable data storage, management and analysis capabilities for high throughput datasets, including DNA-based animal identification, parentage testing and other...
This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $500,000 to Texas A&M Agrilife Research to study neuroendocrine control of reproduction in cattle breeds. The goal is to determine if distinct differences in reproductive function between Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle can be attributed to differences in hypothalamic and pituitary function. The awardee will...