Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110
§7628 Support for Research Regarding Diseases of Wheat, Triticale, and Barley Caused by Fusarium Graminearum or by Tilletia Indica
Title 7 › CHAPTER 103 — AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION REFORM › SUBCHAPTER II — NEW AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES › § 7628
Summary
The Secretary of Agriculture may give grants to groups of land-grant colleges and universities to fund multi-state research on two crop diseases: wheat scab (caused by Fusarium graminearum and related fungi) and Karnal bunt (caused by Tilletia indica and related fungi). Grants can pay for work to study how the diseases spread and how vomitoxin acts; to develop crop management and monitoring methods; to create post-harvest and food-processing ways to make infected grain safe; to expand plant breeding for resistance (including a regional breeding nursery and germplasm testing); and to develop and use fungicide systems and other chemical controls until resistant varieties are available. Funds can also support sharing research and outreach, and the Secretary may set up a committee of state agricultural experiment station directors to manage the grants. Funding is authorized as needed for fiscal years 1999 through 2013; $10,000,000 each year for fiscal years 2014 through 2018; and $15,000,000 each year for fiscal years 2019 through 2023. Grant recipients may not use more than 10 percent of the grant for indirect costs.
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Title 7, §7628
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(a)Research grants authorized
The Secretary of Agriculture may make grants to consortia of land-grant colleges and universities to enhance the ability of the consortia to carry out multi-State research projects aimed at understanding and combating diseases of wheat, triticale, and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum and related fungi (referred to in this section as “wheat scab”) or by Tilletia indica and related fungi (referred to in this section as “Karnal bunt”).
(b)Research components
Funds provided under this section shall be available for the following collaborative, multi-State research activities:
(1)Identification and understanding of the epidemiology of wheat scab or of Karnal bunt, and the toxicological properties of vomitoxin, a toxic metabolite commonly occurring in wheat, triticale, and barley infected with wheat scab.
(2)Development of crop management strategies to reduce the risk of wheat scab or Karnal bunt occurrence.
(3)Development of—
(A)efficient and accurate methods to monitor wheat, triticale, and barley for the presence of Karnal bunt or of wheat scab and resulting vomitoxin contamination;
(B)post-harvest management techniques for wheat, triticale, and barley infected with wheat scab or with Karnal bunt; and
(C)milling and food processing techniques to render wheat scab contaminated grain safe.
(4)Strengthening and expansion of plant-breeding activities to enhance the resistance of wheat, triticale, and barley to wheat scab and to Karnal bunt, including the establishment of a regional advanced breeding material evaluation nursery and a germplasm introduction and evaluation system.
(5)Development and deployment of alternative fungicide application systems and formulations to control wheat scab and Karnal bunt and consideration of other chemical control strategies to assist farmers until new more resistant wheat, triticale, and barley varieties are available.
(c)Communications networks
Funds provided under this section shall be available for efforts to concentrate, integrate, and disseminate research, extension, and outreach-orientated information regarding wheat scab or Karnal bunt.
(d)Management
To oversee the use of a grant made under this section, the Secretary may establish a committee composed of the directors of the agricultural experiment stations in the States in which land-grant colleges and universities that are members of the consortium are located.
(e)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section— (1)
(2)$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018; and
(3)$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
(f)Limitation on indirect costs
A recipient of a grant under this section may not use more than 10 percent of the funds provided by the grant for the indirect costs of carrying out the initiatives described in subsection (a).
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical
Amendments
to this section. The
Amendments
by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.
Amendments
2018—Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 115–334, § 7303(1), added par. (3). Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 115–334, § 7303(2), added subsec. (f). 2014—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 113–79 amended subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2012.” 2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7307(1), substituted “grants” for “grant” in heading. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7307(2), substituted “2012” for “2007”. 2002—Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(4)(A), substituted “, triticale, and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum or by Tilletia indica” for “and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(1), reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of Agriculture may make a grant to a consortium of land-grant colleges and universities to enhance the ability of the consortium to carry out a multi-State research project aimed at understanding and combating diseases of wheat and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum and related fungi (referred to in this section as ‘wheat scab’).” Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(A), (B), inserted “or of Karnal bunt,” after “epidemiology of wheat scab” and “, triticale,” after “occurring in wheat”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(C), inserted “or Karnal bunt” after “wheat scab”. Subsec. (b)(3)(A). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(D), substituted “, triticale, and barley for the presence of Karnal bunt or of” for “and barley for the presence of”. Subsec. (b)(3)(B). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(E), substituted “, triticale, and barley infected with wheat scab or with Karnal bunt” for “and barley infected with wheat scab”. Subsec. (b)(3)(C). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(F), inserted “wheat scab” after “to render”. Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(G), substituted “, triticale, and barley to wheat scab and to Karnal bunt” for “and barley to wheat scab”. Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(2)(H), inserted “and Karnal bunt” after “wheat scab” and “, triticale,” after “resistant wheat”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7207(d)(3), inserted “or Karnal bunt” after “wheat scab”. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 107–171, § 7131, substituted “such sums as may be necessary” for “$5,200,000” and “2007” for “2002”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 8701 of this title.
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7 U.S.C. § 7628
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110