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Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics Programs | NIFA The lifecycle of grants and cooperative agreements consists of four phases: Pre-Award, Award, Post-Award, and Close Out. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture is committed to serving its stakeholders, Congress, and the public by using new technologies to advance greater openness.
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Veterinary Services Grant Program Technical Assistance Webinar NIFA staff will hold a Technical Assistance Webinar to discuss the Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) Notice of Funding Opportunity. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides leadership and funding for programs that advance agriculture-related sciences.
Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics Programs NIFA supports the latest plant breeding, genetics, and genomics research to ensure that U.S. agriculture is prepared to meet the grand challenges facing the world. Innovation in agricultural production is key to producing more food with less impact on the environment.
Agriculture of the future will be enabled by genome design, innovative breeding methods, data analysis, and knowledge of molecular and biological processes.
Breeding crops for the future will require new traits, breeding platforms built for quick transfer of traits to elite cultivars, coordination of breeding efforts in public and private domains, and training for current and future plant breeders and researchers Plant Breeding for Agricultural Production (A1141) Conventional Plant Breeding for Cultivar Development (A1143) Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Physiology of Agricultural Plants (A1152) Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (113.
A) Foundational Knowledge of Plant Products (A1103) Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems (DSFAS) (A1541) Agricultural Innovation through Gene Editing (A1191) Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program (HX) Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage System Program Economic and Social Implications of Food and Agricultural Technologies (A1642) Program Specific Resources Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Programs Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative Specialty Crop Research Initiative Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage System Program Supplemental and Alternative Crops Sensing What Plants Sense: Integrated Framework Helps Scientists Explain Biology and Predict Crop Performance Securing Plant Genebank Collections and Providing Educational Resources for Training Opportunities Research to Develop Cranberry Cultivars with Less Added Sugar Drought Tolerant Peanut Breeding Under the Hood: How Environment and Genomes Interact in Plant Development Development and Optimization of a Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus - Mediated Gene Editing System to Improve Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat Metabolomic Selection for Enhanced Fruit Flavor Oklahoma Team Discovers a Wheat Gene that Increases Grain Yield Development of a Practical Haplotype Graph for Wheat Multistate W3150: Breeding Better Beans Big Data Driven Agriculture A Road Map for Conservation, Use, and Public Engagement around North America's Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Utilized Plants Training in Plant Genetic Resources Management: A Way Forward Breeding Crops for Enhanced Food Safety Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program Supplemental and Alternative Crops (SAC) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development Multistate Projects - National Information Management and Support System National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) National Plant Germplasm Coordinating Committee (NPGCC) USDA’s Plant Breeding Research Resources and Roadmap Competitive Grant Programs Program Specific Resources AG2PI Fact Sheet 2022.
pdf (pdf - 162. 24 KB) A1143 AFRI Conventional Plant Breeding Fact Sheet 2022 (pdf - 411. 91 KB) Supplemental and Alternative Crops Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage System Program Page last updated: November 13, 2025 Your feedback is important to us.
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Microbial Genomics Program is funded by USDA NIFA. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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MGPV Travel Grant is sponsored by Geological Society of America (GSA), Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Volcanology Division. MGPV Travel grants support student travel to the annual GSA meeting. Applications are restricted to active graduate or undergraduate students who are the presenting authors of an accepted abstract at the annual GSA meeting.
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This omnibus research funding opportunity includes various program elements, with rolling submissions for Earth Science research through August 2026. Proposers to Earth Science using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation high-end computing facility must include specific budget details.
USDA-NIFA-HEP-011737 puts $14 million behind roughly 28 awards of up to $705,000 for graduate fellowships in food and agricultural sciences. No match is required. But two eligibility rules — the new-graduate-student definition and the citizenship requirement — disqualify most of the students a department would naturally nominate.
Read articleNIFA's Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program (USDA-NIFA-HSI-011903) posted September 10, 2026 with $30.6 million, 40 anticipated awards, and a December 3 deadline. It uses the same 25 percent enrollment definition the Justice Department has declined to defend at the Department of Education. Here is the structure, the three grant types, and the caps that decide who wins.
Read articleNIFA's FY2026 Higher Education Challenge program closes October 15, 2026 with $5.7 million and roughly 18 awards. Standard grants cap at $150,000, Collaborative Type 1 at $300,000, and Collaborative Type 2 at $750,000 — all from the same pool, all scored against each other. No match is required. Here is how the tier structure actually determines your odds.
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