Who funds plant disease research?

We count 49 funded plant disease projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 5 funders. The most came from USDA (15 projects), EU · ERC (14 projects) and EU · MSCA (11 projects). The median award is $624K, across the 48 of 49 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

49

Funders

5

Median award

$624K

Open calls now

0

Top funders of plant disease research

Projects whose title or summary mentions plant disease. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open plant disease funding calls

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Funded plant disease projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Plant gene banks safeguard millions of seed samples--including crop wild relatives, landraces, and heirloom varieties--that hold the key to…
  USDA · $649,978 · ends 2030
• Rice provides nutrition for over 3.5 billion people and is an important commodity in the united states
  USDA · $750,000 · ends 2030
• American farmers face constant threats from crop diseases that jeopardize food security, reduce agricultural yields, and erode farm…
  USDA · $1,000,000 · ends 2030
• Novel Mechanism-of-Action (NMoA) genes: a pathway to durable Soybean Rust resistance
  UKRI · BBSRC · £724,875 · ends 2028
• Developing crops that have stable immunity to evolving pathogens in a variable climate
  NSF · BIO · $797,594 · ends 2028
• Modelling and re-engineering the ubiquitin-proteasome system to engineer novel plant disease resistance
  Wellcome · ends 2027
• Resolving Structural Interactions Shaping Plant Immunity
  EU · MSCA · €232,916 · 2027–2029 · KEYGENE NV
• Harnessing comparative genomics for trait specific synthetic plant symbionts - SYNBIONT
  EU · MSCA · €194,075 · 2027–2029 · UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA
• Dissecting the functional diversity of TIRs for robust plant immunity in a warming climate
  EU · MSCA · €226,421 · 2027–2029 · INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT
• Feasibility for Instantaneous, Large Scale, Low Cost and Field-Ready Hyperspectral Monitoring of Plant Pathogens Trained Using Novel Plasmonic Technology
  UKRI · Innovate UK · £394,145 · ends 2027

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “plant disease or plant diseases or crop disease or plant pathogen”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.