Synthesis Feb03/March03

Published by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 2, No. 2, Feb. 03/March 03

Grants Submitted, January and February 2003

There were a total of 37 grant proposals for January 2003, and a total amount requested of $27,014,996.

CAFNR PI/CoPIs	Project Title	Project Type	Agency	Amount Requested
Eric Antoniou • Allen Garverick • Michael Smith • Robert Youngquist	Molecular mechanisms of bovine ovarian follicular development	Basic Research	NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human	$942,500
Ronald Belyea	Recovery of Nutrients from the Modified Dry Grind Ethanol Process	Applied Research	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	$24,000
Eric Berg	Effect of feeding regimens on growth, endocrine profiles, and carcass composition in meat-type goats raised in Missouri	Applied Research	North Central Region Sustainable Ag Research and Education	$9,780
Edward Coe • Karen Cone	Comprehensive Genetic, Physical, and Database Resources for Maize	Basic Research	NSF	$68,820
Shawn Conley	Integrated Crop and Pest Management Strategies to Decrease Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Interference in Soft Red Winter Wheat	Applied Research	North Central Region Sustainable Ag Research and Education	$10,000
Michael Cook	Enhancing The Sustainability of Producer-Owned Organizations	Applied Research	North Central Region Sustainable Ag Research and Education	$10,000
John Gardner	Shed for Bradford Research and Extension Center	Applied Research	US Department of Agriculture	$124,373
Michael Gold	Special Forest Products Production and Marketing Conference	Other	Forest Service	$20,845
Matthew Gompper	The Origin and Genetic Isolation of the Dwarf Carnivore Fauna of Cozumel	Basic Research	NSF	$191,878
Shelia Grant	Engineering a Vascular Troponin T Biosensor	Basic Research	American Heart Association	$119,634
Ingolf Gruen	Development and Impact Analysis of an Acceptable Soy Yogurt	Applied Research	North Central Region Sustainable Ag Research and Education	$10,000
Perry Gustafson • Henry Nguyen	Genome Evolution in Polyploid Wheat	Basic Research	University of California at Davis	$390,534
Richard Guyette • Daniel Dey	Predicting extreme wildland fire with equations derived from the long-term interactions of climate, fuels and humans	Basic Research	National Interagency Fire Center	$326,895
Matthew Lucy	Regulation of growth hormone receptor in liver and aipose tissue of periparturient dairy cattle	Basic Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$160,658
Patrick Market	The Simulaiton of MCS Precipitation Efficiency and Estimation Using GOES Sounding Parameters	Basic Research	NASA	$24,000
Laura McCann	Barriers to Adoption of Animal Waste Management Strategies	Applied Research	North Carolina State University	$18,518
Bruce McClure	Pollen-pistil interactions in Nicotiana	Basic Research	National Science Foundation	$727,127
Bruce McClure	Analysis of Non-S-RNase Factors Required for Self-incompatibility and Unilateral Incompatibitlity in Nicotiana	Basic Research	NASA	$23,631
Anne McKendry	Fusarium Head Blight Research in Winter Wheat	Applied Research	Michigan State University	$178,958
Michael McMullen	Molecular and Functional Diversity in Maize	Basic Research	University of Wisconsin, Madison	$1,109,695
Jan Miernyk	Functional Genomics of J-Domain Proteins: Key Adaptations for Flowering Plants	Basic Research	North Carolina State University	$578,416
Henry Nguyen • Perry Gustafson	Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Aluminum Tolerance in Maize and Rice	Basic Research	Cornell University	$1,610,400
Henry Nguyen • David Sleper • Gary Stacey	Isoflavonoid biosynthesis regulation in soybean seeds	Basic Research	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	$1,200,524
Michael Nolan	Famine Early Warning System Network	Applied Research	Foreign Ag Service	$21,593
David O'Brien	Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Rural Russia	Basic Research	Southern Methodist University	$9,680
Joseph Polacco	Activation of Plant Urease	Basic Research	National Science Foundation	$443,736
Joseph Polacco	Stress-related gene expression in a diverse Vitis germplasm	Basic Research	Southwest Missouri State University	$328,623
Joseph Polacco	Functional genomic analysis of phylloxera resistance	Basic Research	Southwest Missouri State University	$11,000
Douglas Randall • Jan Miernyk	Regulation and Assembly of plant pyruvate dehydrogenase	Basic Research	National Science Foundation	$492,552
R. Michael Roberts	Conceptus IFN and LH in maternal recognition of pregnancy	Basic Research	Lalor Foundation, Inc.	$33,000
Robert Schnabel • Jerry Taylor	Identification of milk production QTL on BTA2	Basic Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$257,045
Leon Schumacher	Portable processing/filtration of 100% nonesterified crop oils as alternate fuel in diesels	Applied Research	Enviro Fuel Feed, Inc.	$33,300
Robert Sharp • Stephen Pallardy	Plants without water: Comparative and functional genomics of dehydration	Basic Research	Texas Tech University	$1,238,535
Gary Stacey • Henry Nguyen	Sequencing and Mapping the Gene Rich Regions of Soybean	Basic Research	NSF	$15,517,056
Jerry Taylor • Carol Lorenzen	Protein Expression Profiling in Cattle	Basic Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$372,798
Corinne Valdivia	A Livelihoods Paradigm, Agricultural Research, and Localitites: A Case Study	Applied Research	MacArthur Foundation	$75,000
Trygve Veum • David Eide	Single and Dual Radiotracer Approaches to Simultaneously Measure Zinc Transport Both in vitro and in vivo	Basic Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$299,893

There were a total of 20 grant proposals for February 2003 and a total amount requested of $5,052,080.

CAFNR PI/CoPIs	Project Title	Project Type	Agency	Amount Requested
Elizabeth Barham	Marketing Missouri Wine and Specialty Products Through Labeling for Regional Identity, Year 2	Basic Research	Missouri Department of Agriculture	$54,009
Bruce Barrett	Developing Alternatives for Codling Moth Management in Midwest Apple Orchards	Applied Research	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne	$26,168
Eric Berg • Jeffre Firman • Ruth Macdonald • Donald Spiers	Enhancing growth and development in Eritrean Children through sustainable animal food sources	Applied Research	Lincoln University	$34,148
Sharyn Freyermuth • Gerald Hazelbauer • Bruce McClure	Genomics-based Biotechnology Education	Other	US Department of Agriculture, CSREES	$400,000
John Gardner	Equipment Storage and Service Center (Delta Center)	Other	US Department of Agriculture	$500,000
Mark Haidekker • Shelia Grant • Gang Yao	Cross-Modality Optical and X-ray Tomography of GFP Transgenic Mice	Basic Research	NIH	$300,000
Jack Jones	Nutrient dynamics and water quality in the Eagle Bluffs Wildlife Conservation Area and Columbia Wastewater Treatment Wetlands	Basic Research	City of Columbia, Mo.	$5,000
Monty Kerley • Robert Kallenbach • David Patterson	Beef Technology Transfer	Applied Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$274,996
William Lamberson • Michael Smith • Donald Spiers	Toward Lifelong Learning: Encouraging Science Reading Beyond the Curriculum	Applied Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$78,196
Marc Linit	Plant Diagnostic Center Laboratory	Applied Research	Michigan State University	$60,000
Dennis Lubahn • Don Estes • William Folk • MaryAnn Gowdy • Ruth Macdonald • George Rottinghaus • Grace Sun • Andrew Thomas • David Trinklein • Gary Weisman	MU Center for Phytonutrient and Phytochemical Studies	Basic Research	NIH	$858,161
Mark Morgan	Three Creeks Visitor Study	Applied Research	Mo. Department of Conservation	$3,000
Donald Null	Food Grade Soybean Seed Size as Influenced by Planting Date, Maturity Group and Plant Population (#02-065)	Applied Research	Mo. Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)	$6,900
R. Michael Roberts	Interaction between blastocyst and Uterine epithelium	Basic Research	NIH National Institutes of Health	$50,000
R. Michael Roberts	Interaction between blastocyst and Uterine epithelium	Basic Research	NIH National Institutes of Health	$261,000
Leon Schumacher	Novel Reactor-Separator for Biodiesel Production	Basic Research	NSF	$375,000
Grace Sun • Laurie Erb • Agnes Simonyi • Gary Weisman	Cell Models for AD: Lipids and related signaling pathways	Basic Research	NIH National Institute on Aging	$897,475
William Wiebold • Grover Shannon	Application of Advanced Genetics to Enhance Soybean Production	Applied Research	Mo. Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)	$116,158
J. Allen Wrather • Henry Nguyen • Grover Shannon • David Sleper	Biology and Management of Soybean Cyst Nematode	Basic Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$641,658
Robert Young • Peter Zimmel	Regionalized Implications of Farm Programs - Texas Respresentative Farms	Applied Research	Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service	$110,211