Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA OP 009622
The Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) is a discretionary grant program run by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) that is designed to build and coordinate a broad research community focused on connecting genetic information (genomes) to observable traits and performance (phenomes) in both crops and livestock. The main idea is to strengthen U.S. agriculture by improving how well researchers and producers can understand and predict how plants and animals will grow and perform under changing real-world conditions, especially as weather, environments, and production systems become more variable. By bringing people and tools together across disciplines, AG2PI aims to lay groundwork that helps farmers and ranchers select and produce genotypes that are better adapted, more productive, and more reliable across different climates and management settings.
A central theme of the opportunity is collaborative, interdisciplinary science engagement. AG2PI emphasizes approaches that combine advanced computing, automated high-throughput phenotyping and genotyping, and climate or environmental modeling to better explain and forecast how genetic diversity interacts with conditions in the field or production environment. The program explicitly seeks to link crop and animal research rather than keeping them in separate silos, with the expectation that shared methods, data practices, and analytical techniques can accelerate progress for both sectors. It also builds on and complements earlier or parallel public efforts, including the Plant Genome Research Project and the National Animal Genome Research Program, rather than reinventing them.
Another major priority is open and fair access to research outputs. AG2PI highlights the importance of making data, software, germplasm, and other biological materials available through open data sources, agreed-upon standards, and established processes for exchanging research materials. In practice, this points applicants toward strong data management and sharing plans, attention to interoperability and community standards, and project designs that make tools and resources reusable by others. The initiative also encourages deliberate connections among animal sciences (such as physiology, meat science, nutrition, and veterinary science), plant sciences (such as agronomy, crop modeling, and plant physiology), and allied fields like genetics, genomics, artificial intelligence, informatics, statistics, and engineering.
Eligibility is broad. Entities that may receive grants include state agricultural experiment stations; colleges and universities; university research foundations; other research institutions and organizations; federal agencies; national laboratories; private organizations, foundations, or corporations; individuals; and groups or consortia made up of two or more eligible entities. While a single eligible organization can apply, NIFA encourages consortia, which fits the program’s emphasis on coordination across disciplines, commodities, and institutions. Applicants must meet all eligibility and application requirements in the Request for Applications (RFA) by the deadline, or they risk being excluded from consideration.
The funding opportunity is identified as USDA NIFA OP 009622 under CFDA 10.332 (Agriculture), with a grant funding instrument. The listed award ceiling is $1,100,000. The original closing date for the opportunity was June 1, 2023, and the opportunity was created on April 5, 2023. A compliance point applicants need to pay attention to is NIFA’s restriction on duplicate or substantially overlapping submissions: submitting duplicative applications within the same fiscal year can lead to disqualification of both applications.Apply for USDA NIFA OP 009622
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.332.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-04-05.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-06-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,100,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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