Published by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 05

Grants Awarded August 2005

There were a total of 30 grants awarded for August 2005. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.

PI Project Title Agency Amount
Eric Berg National Pork Quality Survey National Pork Board
$29,537
Eric Berg Stepwise discriminate and latent variable analysis of pre-harvest process factors influence on fresh pork quality National Pork Board
$83,421
Mark Coggeshall Survival and Growth of Planted Oak Seedlings in Flooded Environments Mo. Department of Conservation
$31,100
James Coleman National Swine Research and Resource Center National Center for Research Resources
$2,848,226
James English Defense Peptides to Protect Soybean from Rust Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council
$91,102
Charles Fluharty Rural Policy Research Institute Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$407,583
David Galat Science Panel support for Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) navigation and ecosystem sustainability program Geological Survey
$25,000
John Gardner Virtual Plant Database Enhancement Project, Missouri Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$658,377
Gene Garrett Developing a Knowledge Base to Increase Adoption and Financial Gain of Agroforestry on Family Farms Agricultural Research Service
$69,127
Patrick Guinan Technical Support for Automated Weather and Environmental Monitoring At Pipestone National Monument and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield National Park Service
$7,414
Patrick Guinan Automated Weather and Environmental Monitoring at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri National Park Service
$3,476
Richard Guyette Fire risk, occurrence, calibration, and mapping of Ozark Forests Forest Service
$99,435
Jack Jones City of Columbia; Eagle Bluffs FY05 City of Columbia, Mo.
$6,000
Jack Jones 100 Missouri Water Samples Missouri Department of Conservation
$7,500
Mary Leuci Building Community-Based Food Systems to Enhance Food Security in Missouri: A Joint Project by Missouri Rural Crisis Center and the University of Missouri W.K. Kellogg Foundation
$188,067
Henry Nguyen Interdrought II:International Conference on Integrated Approaches to Improve Crop Production under Drought-Prone Environments Agricultural Research Service
$28,000
Michael Nolan Field Advisor, Congo Foreign Ag Service
$244,090
Kenneth Pigg Awareness, Attitudes and Actions of Residents in the Hinkson Creek Watershed Regarding Natural Resources and Urban Watershed Quality Missouri Department of Conservation
$52,720
Randall Prather International Conference on Pig Reproduction Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$5,000
Randall Prather The 7th International Conference on Pig Reproduction Agricultural Research Service
$2,500
Douglas Randall Development of Proteomics Center and Plant Biology Research Projects Monsanto Corporation
$20,001
Sandy Rikoon Core Curricula Development for Baccalaureate Sustainable Agriculture Degree Program Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$134,893
Elizabeth E Rogers Role of FRD3 in Iron Translocation in Plants Department of Agriculture
$272,000
Grover Shannon To Develop Productive Group IV and V Soybeans Resistant to Nematodes and Diseases Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council
$66,056
Gary Stacey SoyMap: sequence organization and evolution of the soybean genome Purdue University
$153,027
Laura Sweets Sentinel Plots to Monitor the Spread of Asian Soybean rust in the U.S. soybean production regions North Central Soybean Research Program
$18,000
Laura Sweets Soybean Rust Survey Department of Agriculture
$25,000
Jerry Taylor Construction, Characterization and Application of a Bovine Oligonucleotide Microarray Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$919,000
Jerry Taylor Detection, Identification and Utilization of QTL for Feed Efficiency and Carcass Traits in a Commercial Beef Cattle Population Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
$499,754
Judy Wall Reduction of U(VI) and Toxic Metals by Desulfovibrio Cytochrome C3 Department of Energy
$300,000