§ 7628. — Support for research regarding diseases of wheat and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC7628]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 103--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION REFORM
SUBCHAPTER II--NEW AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION
INITIATIVES
Sec. 7628. Support for research regarding diseases of wheat,
triticale, and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum or by
Tilletia indica
(a) Research grant 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 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 1999 through
2007.
(Pub. L. 105-185, title IV, Sec. 408, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 574; Pub.
L. 107-171, title VII, Secs. 7131, 7207(d)(1)-(4)(A), May 13, 2002, 116
Stat. 435, 440, 441.)
Amendments
2002--Pub. L. 107-171, Sec. 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, Sec. 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, Sec. 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, Sec. 7207(d)(2)(C), inserted ``or
Karnal bunt'' after ``wheat scab''.
Subsec. (b)(3)(A). Pub. L. 107-171, Sec. 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, Sec. 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, Sec. 7207(d)(2)(F), inserted
``wheat scab'' after ``to render''.
Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 107-171, Sec. 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, Sec. 7207(d)(2)(H), inserted ``and
Karnal bunt'' after ``wheat scab'' and ``, triticale,'' after
``resistant wheat''.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107-171, Sec. 7207(d)(3), inserted ``or Karnal
bunt'' after ``wheat scab''.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 107-171, Sec. 7131, substituted ``such sums as
may be necessary'' for ``$5,200,000'' and ``2007'' for ``2002''.
