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CRITICAL ISSUES: Emerging and New Plant & Animal Diseases
The program is designed to provide one-time seed funding to help initiate work requiring immediate attention until other longer-term resources can be secured to address the issue.
CSREES will be soliciting proposals on an as-needed basis during the year to address specific new or emerging issues.
For this particular solicitation CSREES is requesting proposals that address specific aspects of the following issue:
Development of a Rapid Field Assay for Detection of Vibrio Tubiashii and/or its secreted Metalloproteases toxin in Commercial Shellfish Hatcheries and Nurseries.
CSREES will be soliciting proposals on an as-needed basis during the year to address specific new or emerging issues.
For this particular solicitation CSREES is requesting proposals that address specific aspects of the following issue:
Development of a Rapid Field Assay for Detection of Vibrio Tubiashii and/or its secreted Metalloproteases toxin in Commercial Shellfish Hatcheries and Nurseries.
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CRITICAL ISSUES: Emerging and New Plant & Animal Diseases RFA
Additional Information of Eligibility:
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 USC 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 will result in CSREES not accepting the application, or even though an application may be reviewed, will preclude CSREES from making an award.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/critical_issues.html
Contact:
CSREES Help Desk Phone: 202-401-5048 Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET.
Agency Email Description:
Help Desk
Agency Email:
electronic@csrees.usda.gov
Date Posted:
2009-05-20
Application Due Date:
2009-06-25
Archive Date:
2010-02-17
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