{"id":16288,"date":"2024-06-21T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:16:33","slug":"2025-nwa-research-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2024\/06\/21\/2025-nwa-research-grant-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NWA Research Grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Szczepanski, Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watermelon.ag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>National Watermelon Association<\/strong><\/a> (NWA) reached out to the\u00a0 research community about NWA&#8217;s commitment to funding research that supports watermelon farmers including research on pest and disease risk mitigation and food safety. The research that NWA funds through this program is entirely focused on production research, aimed at solving issues growers face on a regional or national basis. Consumer-focused research, such as studies on human health outcomes from consumption, market research, and other supply chain research, are not part of this grant program.<\/p>\n<h2>Priority Areas<\/h2>\n<p>The highest priorities for research are:<br \/>\n\u2022 Fusarium wilt<br \/>\n\u2022 Phytophthora capsici<br \/>\nOther concerns include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Anthracnose<br \/>\n\u2022 Downy Mildew<br \/>\n\u2022 Cucumber Beetle<br \/>\n\u2022 Spider Mite<br \/>\n\u2022 Gummy Stem Blight<br \/>\n\u2022 Virus\/ virus vectors \/ vector control<br \/>\n\u2022 Increasing vigor in early stage plants<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/event\/2025-nwa-research-grant-proposal\/\">View the Timeline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Watermelon Association is commitment to funding research that supports watermelon farmers. The research that NWA funds through this program is entirely focused on production research, aimed at solving issues growers face on a regional or national basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[399,321,37,315,116,780,610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16468,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}