Published by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 4, No. 2, February 05

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Grants Submitted January 2005

There were a total of 72* grant proposals for January 2005 and a total amount requested of $26,290,874.

PI/CoPIs Project Title Project Type Agency
Amount Requested
(Non-CAFNR PI)
•David Baker
Designing and Delivering Public Education to Respond to Food Biosecurity Threats Other Department of Agriculture
$2,468,495
(Non-CAFNR PI)
•Bruce McClure
Teacher Institute and Partnerships in Science (TIPS) Other Coordinating Board of Higher Education
$594,790
(Non-CAFNR PI)
•Douglas Noltie
Longevity of Cavefish Basic Research National Science Foundation
$106,855
(Non-CAFNR PI)
•Joseph Polacco
Solvent-Free Process for Soybean Oil Extraction Basic Research Department of Agriculture
$500,000
(Non-CAFNR PI)
•Brian Mooney
•John Walker
Arabidopsis Secreted Peptidome Resource Basic Research National Science Foundation
$1,056,114
Gary Allee Chick Bioavailability Protocol Applied Research Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc
$15,000
Elizabeth Barham
•William Heffernan
Missouri Regional Cuisines: GIS Model for Diversifying Production Landscapes Basic Research Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$464,802
Ronald Belyea Removal of Water and Phosphorus from Dry Grind Corn Processing Streams Basic Research University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
$48,250
Eric Berg Stepwise discriminate and latent variable analysis of pre-harvest process factors influence on fresh pork quality Applied Research National Pork Board
$83,421
Jaclyn Card
•Shu Cole
Travel Barriers Encountered by Individuals with Physical Disabilities Applied Research U.S. Department of Education
$94,061
Michael Cook
•Harvey James
•Peter Klein
•William Meyers
•Michael Sykuta
Agribusiness Management National Needs Fellowship Other Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$276,000
Georgia Davis Identification of a major gene for aflatoxin reduction in maize Basic Research Agricultural Research Service
$27,580
H. Willard Downs Missouri AgrAbility Project Other Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$600,000
Kevin Fritsche Omega 3 fatty acids and innate immune response to infection Basic Research Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$653,857
Melissa Goellner Mitchum An Integrated Functional Genomics Approach to Dissect the Soybean Cyst Nematode-Soybean Interaction Basic Research National Science Foundation
$2,736,391
Melissa Goellner Mitchum Investigating Disease Resistance Signaling Networks in Response to Cyst Nematode Parasitism in Soybean Basic Research Southern Illinois University
$571,038
Melissa Goellner Mitchum Functional Analysis of Cyst Nematode Parasitism Genes Other North Carolina State University
$137,475
Sheila Grant
•Xudong Fan
•Azlin Mustapha
Novel Biosensors with Nanopore and Quantum Dot Architectures Applied Research Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$498,432
Thomas Guilfoyle Auxin Response Factors and Auxin-Regulated Gene Expression Basic Research National Science Foundation
$472,806
Mark Hannink Molecular Basis of Gene Expression and Signal Processing Other National Institutes of Health
$1,404,661
Thomas Johnson Small Farm Biomass Market Organization and the Economic Impacts on Rural Communities Basic Research Department of Agriculture
$408,483
Robert Kallenbach
•Wayne Bailey
•Patrick Guinan
Development of Farmer-friendly, Web-based Model to Reduce the Amount of Pesticide Used for Alfalfa Weevil Control Basic Research Michigan State University
$83,695
Andy Kendig Horseweed/Mare's Tail Control Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$10,000
Andy Kendig Palmer Amaranth Control Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$5,000
Marc Linit CPBR Fellowship-Danforth-Taylor Basic Research Consortium of Plant Biotechnology Research
$212,000
Matthew Lucy
•Eric Antoniou
•H. Allen Garverick
•Jonathan Green
•Duane Keisler
•William Lamberson
•David Patterson
•Randall Prather
•Edmund Rucker
•Timothy Safranski
•Michael Smith
•Peter Sutovsky
•Jerry Taylor
An Innovative Doctoral Training Program to Prepare the Next Generation of Cross-Disciplinary Scholars in Animal Reproductive Biology Other Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$276,000
Leonie Marks
•Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes
Is it Safe to Eat? How Lay Understandings of Risk and Mediated Accounts of Food Safety Influence Consumer Behavior Basic Research National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science
$218,001
Rose-Marie Muzika Effects of prescribed fire on oak pests and invasive plant species Applied Research Forest Service
$38,621
Nadia Navarrete Tindall
•Timothy Reinbott
Restoring Native Plant Species in Waterways for Northern Bobwhite and Other Priority Grassland Birds Other Missouri Department of Conservation
$20,000
Henry Nguyen
•Grover Shannon
•David Sleper
•Gary Stacey
Development of Genomic tools for Soybean Development Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$911,627
Henry Nguyen Translational Genomics for Drought Tolerance in Soybean Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$161,193
Henry Nguyen
•Gary Stacey
•Jerry Taylor
Acquisition of Instrumentation for Plant and Animal Genome Mapping and High Throughput Genotyping Basic Research National Science Foundation
$925,501
Michael Nolan Africa Program Support Applied Research Foreign Ag Service
$167,750
Michael Nolan Senior Regional Environmental Advisor Applied Research Foreign Ag Service
$191,400
Joseph Parcell
•J. Bruce Bullock
•John Gardner
•Peter Klein
Developing an Agri-Entrepreneurship Internship Program Other Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$48,301
Bobby Phipps Nitrogen Rate and Timing Study for Cotton Growth on Irrigated Gumbo soils Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$10,500
Bobby Phipps Symptoms of Incorrectly Applied Herbicides in Upland Cotton Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$10,000
Bobby Phipps Stand Evaluation According to Density, Planting Date and Leaf Removal Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$6,500
Bobby Phipps Maturity as Influenced by Plant Populations in Upland Cotton Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$7,500
Vern Pierce
•John Lory
•Raymond Massey
Regulatory Environment Audit Proposal to the Missouri Department of Agriculture From: Commercial Agriculture Extension Program Applied Research Missouri Department of Agriculture
$94,042
Joseph Polacco
•Qisheng Song
Microbial Expression of Soybean Ureases to Produce New Insecticides Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$96,000
Joseph Polacco
•Kristin Bilyeu
•Grover Shannon
•David Sleper
Production of low phytic acid soybeans-- transgenic and breeding strategies Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$88,000
Joseph Polacco
•Kristin Bilyeu
•Grover Shannon
•David Sleper
Combining new traits in soybeans: Biotechnology assisted breeding strategies Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$115,828
Joseph Polacco Influence of arginine availability on nitric oxide-mediated processes in Arabidopsis Basic Research National Science Foundation
$521,694
Randall Prather
•Edmund Rucker
Tissue Engineering for Hereditary Retinal Degeneration Applied Research University of Louisville
$382,601
Linda Randall Export of Proteins in Escherichia coli Basic Research National Institutes of Health
$340,035
Sandy Rikoon
•James Spain
•Robert Torres
Core Curricula Development for Baccalaureate Sustainable Agriculture Degree Program Other Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$143,194
Cheryl Rosenfeld
•Michael Collins
•Dennis Lubahn
•R Michael Roberts
Epigenetic effects in agouti mice on a methyl diet (LSC/Rosenfeld-NIH) Basic Research National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute
$404,251
Peter Scharf
•John Lory
Innovative Technologies for Nutrient Management Basic Research Environmental Protection Agency
$994,100
James Schoelz Creation of Arabidopsis knockout lines through homologous recombination with a Cauliflower mosaic virus vector Other National Science Foundation
$550,039
Cheikh Seye A Nucleotide Receptor as Target for the Control of the Progression of Atherosclerosis Basic Research American Heart Association
$143,000
Reid Smeda
•Andy Kendig
Preserving the Value of Weed Management in glyphosate Resistant Soybean Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$16,090
Gary Stacey Biological Function of flavone and isoflavone synthesis during legume-rhizobia interactions Basic Research Danforth Foundation
$161,258
Judith Stallmann Missouri's August-Sales-Tax Holiday Other Missouri Municipal Leauge
$10,350
Christopher Starbuck
•James Quinn
Facilitating Ornamental IPM through a Regionally Based Outreach and Demonstration Project in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri Other Michigan State University
$75,000
Gene Stevens Sulfur Fertilization on cotton for Sandy Loam and Silt Loam Soils Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$7,500
Peter Sutovsky
•Shanna Swan
Novel, Sensitive Markers of Male Reproductive Toxicity Basic Research National Institutes of Health
$652,985
Allen Thompson
•Neil Fox
Improved Modeling for Runoff and Soil Erosion from Natural Events Basic Research Geological Survey
$21,958
Paul Vaughn
•Robert Torres
Collaborative Agricultural and Food Sciences Distance Education Programs in the Heartland Other Kansas State University
$80,633
John Viator Burn Depth imaging using photoacoustic analysis Basic Research Office of Naval Research
$275,841
John Viator Photoacoustic sensors and imaging of burn injury Basic Research National Institutes of Health
$384,822
John Walker Plant Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics Other Department of Agriculture
$276,000
Judy Wall High Throughput Identification and Structural Characterization of Protein Complexes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Basic Research Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
$900,838
Judy Wall Mechanisms for Growth of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria under Syntrophic Conditions Basic Research University of Oklahoma
$135,808
Judy Wall Whole-Genome Mapping of Regulatory Networks in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Basic Research Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
$1,288,931
Gary Weisman
•Laurie Erb
•Cheikh Seye
COBRE 2010 P2Y2 Nucleotide Receptor--P2Y2 Nucleotide Receptor Function in Astrocytes Other University of Puerto Rico
$922,740
Gary Weisman P2Y2 receptor interaction with filamin A: Potential Role in P2Y2 receptor recycling and cytoskeletal rearrangement Other American Heart Association
$50,000
Gary Weisman P2Y2 nucleotide receptor activation induces vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in rat submandibular gland Basic Research Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation
$35,000
William Wiebold
•Grover Shannon
Irrigated Missouri Soybeans: A Potential Value-Added Crop Basic Research Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC)
$90,680
J. Allen Wrather
•Grover Shannon
Managing Frogeye Leaf Spot and Charcoal Rot in the North Central Region Applied Research Southern Illinois University
$17,000
J. Allen Wrather Site Specific Detection of Cotton-Parasitic Nematodes Applied Research Cotton Incorporated
$10,000
Shuqun Zhang Molecular mechanism of MAPK phosphorylation-induced stabilization of ACC synthase and ethylene production in plants under stress Other National Science Foundation
$482,555

*Note: Several of the grants included in this issue were submitted before January.