Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
Awards: 2015 |2012 | 2011 | 2010
Fiscal Year 2015 Awards Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Developing High Throughput, Low Cost Phenotyping Tools and Devices (PHENO) Advancing Basic Research in Crop Plants Relevant to Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries (ABRDC) |
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Award # | Principal Investigator | Institution | Title | Total Award ($) | Total Duration (Yrs) |
1543963 | Close, Timothy J. Roberts, Philip Lonardi, Stefano Munoz-Amatriain, Maria Huynh, Bao Lam |
University of California-Riverside | BREAD ABDRC: Advancing the Cowpea Genome for Food Security | $1,585,814 | 3 |
1543929 | Curtis, Wayne R. Balogun, Morufat O. Tripathi, Leena |
Pennsylvania State University *University of Ibadan (Nigeria) *International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Kenya) |
BREAD ABRDC: Advanced Technologies to Get Improved Yams in Farmers Hands | $647,733 | 3 |
1543901 | Devos, Katrien M. Khang, Chang Hyun Dida, Mathews M. Odeny, Damaris Schatz, Michael C. |
University of Georgia *Maseno University (Kenya) *ICRISAT (Nairobi, Kenya) *Johns Hopkins University |
BREAD ABRDC: Development of Essential Genetic and Genomic Resources for Finger Millet | $1,771,465 | 3 |
1543942 | Hale, Iago L. Danquah, Agyemang Jamnadass, Ramni Padi, Francis K |
University of New Hampshire *University of Ghana-Legon *World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (Kenya) *Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana |
BREAD ABRDC: Integrated Resource Development for the Genome-enabled Improvement of Shea Tree for sub-Saharan Africa | $563,000 | 3 |
1543957 | Hays, Dirk Bishop, Michael P. Lacey, Ronald Rajan, Nithya Wu, Xinyuan B. |
Texas A&M University | BREAD PHENO: High Throughput Phenotyping Early Stage Root Bulking in Cassava using Ground Penetrating Radar | $2,486,669 | 3 |
1543922 | Ozias-Akins, Peggy J. Bertioli, Soraya Jackson, Scott A. Stalker, Harold Fonceka, Daniel |
University of Georgia* *North Carolina State University *ISRA/ CERAAS (Senegal) |
BREAD ABRDC: Genomic Approaches to Capture Novel Alleles In Cultivated Peanut To Increase Smallholder Production | $1,144,473 | 3 |
1543958 | Poland, Jesse A. Neilsen, Mitchell L. Gooch, Bruce Gore, Michael A. |
Kansas State University *Texas A&M University *Cornell University |
BREAD PHENO: High-Throughput Phenotyping with Smart Phones. #phenoApps | $1,582,824 | 3 |
1543967 | Rokhsar, Daniel Bhatacharjee, Ranjana Obidiegwu, Jude |
University of California-Berkeley *International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (Nigeria) *The National Root Crops Research Institute (Nigeria) |
BREAD ABRDC: Development of Genomic Resources in Water Yam (Dioscorea alata L.) for Accelerated Breeding and Improvement | $1,458,577 | 3 |
1543944 | Sadik, Omowunmi A. Choi, Seokheun Asemota, Helen A. |
State University of New York at Binghamton *University of West Indies (Jamaica |
BREAD PHENO: Development and Field Testing of Paper-based Biosensors to Increase Productivity of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries | $867,536 | 2 |
1543888 | Wang, Kan Yang, Bing Westgate, Mark Tripathi, Leena |
Iowa State University *International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Kenya) |
BREAD ABDRC: Genome-Enabled Platforms for Yam and Common Bean | $830,650 | 3 |
* Subawardee
Fiscal Year 2012 Awards Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) |
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Award # | Principal Investigator | Institution | Title | Total Award ($) | Total Duration (Yrs) |
1212591 | Dvorak, Jan | University of California – Davis |
BREAD: Development of Novel Salt-tolerant Forage and Cereal Crops | $1,104,016 | 3 | 1212576 | Fondong, Vincent | Delaware State University |
BREAD: Engineering Broad-spectrum Resistance Against Multiple Geminiviruses and Cassava Brown Streak Viruses Using Synthetic Trans-acting Small Interfering RNA (tasiRNA) | $1,077,824 | 3 | 1201943 | Grunwald, Sabine | University of Florida |
EAGER: Development of a Geospatial Soil-Crop Inference Engine for Smallholder Farmers | $292,033 | 2 | 1212623 | Nziguheba, Generose | Columbia University |
BREAD: Assessing, Understanding and Targeting Non-responsive Soils for Improved Crop Production in Smallholder Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa | $1,148,136 | 3 |
* Subawardee
Fiscal Year 2011 Awards Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) |
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Award # | Principal Investigator | Institution | Title | Total Award ($) | Total Duration (Yrs) |
1109882 | Chan, Simon | University of California - Davis International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia* International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Uganda* |
BREAD: Fast Breeding for Slow Cycling Crops: Doubled Haploids in Cassava and Banana/Plantain | $1,280,145 | 3 | 1110080 | Fei, Zhangjun | Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research International Potato Center (CIP), Peru* |
BREAD: Determining the Pan-African Sweet Potato Virome: Understanding Virus Diversity, Distribution and Evolution and their Impacts on Sweet Potato Production in Africa | $700,196 | 3 | 1109989 | Gray, Stewart | USDA-ARS/Cornell University University of Washington* International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria* USDA-ARS/Clemson University* |
BREAD: Novel Biomarkers that Rapidly Identify Insect Populations that are Efficient Vectors of Circulative Plant Viruses | $868,896 | 3 | 1110050 | Hanley-Bowdoin, Linda | North Carolina State University Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Tanzania* National Crops Resource Research Institute (NaCCRI-NARO), Uganda* |
BREAD: Functional Analysis of DNA Satellites Associated with Cassava Mosaic Disease | $878,951 | 3 | 1110151 | Vashee, Sanjay | J. Craig Venter Institute International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya* National Institute for Agronomy Research (INRA), Bordeaux, France* |
BREAD: Toward Development of a Vaccine for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) | $2,226,233 | 3 |
* Subawardee
Fiscal Year 2010 Awards Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) |
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Award # | Principal Investigator | Institution | Title | Total Award ($) | Total Duration (Yrs) |
0965346 | Barlow, John | University of Vermont University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark* Plum Island Animal Disease Center* International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya* |
BREAD: A Modern Approach Towards Developing Vaccines for Critical Bovine Diseases Impacting Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa | $1,980,782 | 3 |
0965342 | Buckler, Edward | Cornell University/USDA-ARS University of South Carolina* International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, India* CIMMYT, Nairobi, Kenya |
BREAD: Platform, Pipeline, and Analytical Tools for Next Generation Genotyping to Serve Breeding Efforts in Africa | $1,697,331 | 3 |
0965531 | Cook, Douglas | University of California-Davis International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, India* |
BREAD: Overcoming the Domestication Bottleneck for Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes | $1,750,340 | 3 |
0965420 | Dellaporta, Stephen | Yale University University of Rhode Island* International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)* |
BREAD: Hybrid Technologies for Heterosis in Rice and Related Cereals | $1,738,505 | 3 |
0965533 | Gill, Kulvinder | Washington State University University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point* Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India * |
BREAD: An Alternate Dwarfing Gene System to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals | $1,564,486 | 3 |
0965429 | Huang, Li | Montana State University CIMMYT, Nairobi, Kenya* CSIRO Plant Industry-Black Mountain, Australia * Chinese Academy of Sciences* |
BREAD: Inactivating Rust Resistance Suppressors to Unlock Multiple Defense Responses in Wheat | $1,325,220 | 3 |
0965336 | Lehmann, Johannes | Cornell University University of California-Irvine* World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya* |
BREAD: Biochar Inoculants for Enabling Smallholder Agriculture | $1,609,017 | 3 |
0965380 | Lynch, Jonathan | Pennsylvania State University University of Wisconsin-Madison* Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi* |
BREAD: Improving Water Acquisition in Maize with Root Traits that Reduce the Metabolic Cost of Soil Exploration | $1,627,140 | 3 |
0965413 | Raper, Jayne | New York University School of Medicine Michigan State University* University of Edinburgh* International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya* |
BREAD: Basic Mechanisms Underlying Species-Specific Trypanosome Resistance | $2,087,165 | 3 |
0965511 | Roland, Kenneth | Arizona State University | BREAD: Investigation of Attenuation Strategies to Enable Development of a Live Fowl Typhoid Vaccine | $640,381 | 3 |
0965121 | St. Leger, Raymond | University of Maryland-College Park University of California-Riverside* |
BREAD: Towards Biological Control of Insect Oil Palm Pests | $525,681 | 3 |
0965418 | Staskawicz, Brian | University of California-Berkeley Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland* Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia* |
BREAD: Molecular and Genomic Strategies to Engineer Durable and Sustainable Disease Resistance to Bacterial Blight of Cassava | $1,309,463 | 3 |
0965445 | Stokes, Michael | Western Kentucky University | BREAD: Development of Automated Systems to Increase Crop Yield by Reducing Group Foraging Intensity by Crop Pests | $455,856 | 3 |
0965353 | Tyler, Brett | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute* Pennsylvania State University* |
BREAD: Engineering Novel Resistance against Fungal and Oomycete Pathogens in Developing Country Crop Plants | $1,450,975 | 3 |
0965441 | Tumlinson, James | Pennsylvania State University International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya* |
BREAD: Sustainable Solutions for Preserving Pollinator Health in East Africa | $398,482 | 2 |
* Subawardee