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Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA OP 003156

The grant opportunity titled "Critical Issues Emerging and New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases" offers one-time seed funding for urgent projects addressing emerging plant pest and disease challenges. This funding aims to kickstart work until longer-term resources become available. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is looking for proposals throughout the year to tackle specific issues. For this round, they are specifically interested in research focused on the Redbay ambrosia beetle in avocados, the Brown marmorated stink bug affecting various crops, the Trochanter mealybug in soybeans, the Uganda strain of Wheat Stem Rust, and glyphosate-resistant broadleaf weeds. Proposals that show collaboration with working groups and multi-state research committees will be prioritized, but all qualified researchers are encouraged to submit applications.

• The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture disaster prevention and relief environment food and nutrition health natural resources science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Critical Issues Emerging and New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.200 Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 20, 2010 and posted on Apr 20, 2010.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 21, 2010. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $370,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $90,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification) Private institutions of higher education.
• Applications may be submitted by State agricultural experiment stations, land grant colleges and universities, research foundations established by land grant colleges and universities, colleges and universities receiving funds under the Act of October 10, 1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a et seq.) McIntire Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Act, and accredited schools or colleges of veterinary medicine for the purpose of facilitating or expanding ongoing State Federal food and agricultural research programs that (i) promote excellence in research on a regional and national level (ii) promote the development of regional research centers (iii) promote the research partnership between the Department of Agriculture, colleges and universities, research foundations, and State agricultural experiment stations for regional research efforts and (iv) facilitate coordination and cooperation of research among States through regional research grants. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. An applicant s failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the time of an application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration or, even though an application may be reviewed, will preclude NIFA from making an award.

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