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Published
by the MU College of Agriculture,
Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 5, No. 4, July/August 06
    
• June Awards
• July Awards
Grants
Awarded June 2006
There
were a total of 32 grants awarded for June 2006.
Note: Some
of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more
than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount
|
| Scott Brown |
Fruit/Vegetable Market Analysis |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$323,477 |
| Richard Crawford |
Infrastructure and Construction at SWCenter |
Department of Agriculture |
$34,000 |
| David Davis |
Cattle handling and teaching facility for the Forage Systems Research Center |
Department of Agriculture |
$40,000 |
| Zhaofei Fan |
Multi-Scale Modeling and Mapping Coarse Woody Debris in the Eastern United States |
Forest Service |
$47,500 |
| Zhaofei Fan |
Manager's Guide to Effects of Timber Harvest and Prescribed Fires on Fuels, Species Composition, and Diversity in Ozark Forest Ecosystems |
Forest Service |
$64,325 |
| Zhaofei Fan |
Effects of prescribed fire on upland oak forests |
Forest Service |
$51,300 |
| Jeffre Firman |
Evaluating benefits of substituting poultry by-product meal for fish meal in diets of freshwater aquaculture fishes |
U.S. Poultry and Egg Association |
$42,660 |
| Thomas Fisher |
Delta Center Storage and Service Center Building |
Department of Agriculture |
$99,500 |
| Jose Garcia |
Inclusion Leads to Success: Assisting Minority Farmers and Ranchers to Use Federal Agricultural Services in Missouri and beyond |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$214,421 |
| Gene Garrett |
Establishment of the Wetlands Center of Excellence - A partnership between the US Geological Survey (USGS), Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the University of Missouri. |
Geological Survey |
$189,354 |
| Gene Garrett |
Developing and transferring science in support of agroforestry practices |
Agricultural Research Service |
$230,522 |
| Michael Gold |
Missouri Alternative Product Online Marketplace for Missouri's Entrepreneurs |
Missouri Department of Agriculture |
$50,000 |
| Shelia Grant |
Calibration Studies on Novel Optical Based Biosensors for Calpastatin Detection |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$28,784 |
| Shelia Grant |
Nanosensor Architectures for Rapid PRRSV Detection |
University of Minnesota |
$115,573 |
| Mark Haidekker |
Noninvasive imaging of tissue-engineered blood vessels |
NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute |
$196,851 |
| Thomas Johnson |
Hurricane Katrina
Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force
Post Assessment of Regional Economic Impacts and Consequences |
Department of Defense |
$44,376 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
The Hawthorn Foundation Unitized Agreements |
Hawthorn Foundation |
$10,000 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
Manuscript FastTrack Journal for International Agricultural & Extension Education |
Association of International Ag and Extension Education |
$1,000 |
| Monty Kerley |
Development and Characterization of New Sources of Reduced Raffinose/Stachyose and Low Phyate Soybeans |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$66,060 |
| Monty Kerley |
Identification of soy proteins which are allergenic to young pigs |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$64,400 |
| Monty Kerley |
Improving the Nutritutive Value of Soybeans for Animal Feed Applications |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$60,000 |
| David Larsen |
Interspecific Competition among Shortleaf Pine and Oak Reproduction in Pine-Oak Ecosystems |
Forest Service |
$36,272 |
| David Ledoux |
Evaluation of the Efficacy of High Levels of Microbial Phytase |
Syngenta |
$38,138 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Black-Footed Ferret Resource Selection |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
$15,178 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Rapid Quantitation of Escherichia Coli O157:H7, Salmonella and Shigella in Raw and Ready-to-eat Beef Products Using Real-time PCR |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$30,500 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Identification and characterization of candidate genes conferring drought tolerance in rice |
Syngenta |
$100,854 |
| Mark Ryan |
Enhancing Natural History Education for Conservation |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
$48,870 |
| Grover Shannon |
Develop soybean varieties with superior oil stability and low saturates. |
Agricultural Research Service |
$126,739 |
| Paul Vaughn |
Collaborative Agricultural and Food Sciences Distance Education Programs in the Heartland |
Kansas State University |
$71,646 |
| Judy Wall |
Characteristics of H2 Producing Biological Systems Operating at 1 nM H2 Concentration |
University of Oklahoma |
$65,847 |
| William Wiebold |
Engineering soybeans to meet the sulfur amino acid requirements of livestock |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$60,520 |
| William Wiebold |
Integrated Soybean Management for Asian Soybean Rust |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$62,200 |
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Grants Awarded July 2006
There were a total of 34 grants awarded for July 2006. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.
| PI |
Project Title |
Agency |
Amount |
| Gary Allee |
North American Swine Energy System |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
$115,000 |
| Chris Barnett |
Maintenance of the Public Drinking Water Branch Source Water Inventory/ Vulnerability Assessment Website |
Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
$8,664 |
| Eric Berg |
Consurmers willingness to purchase known tender beef steak within a resturant setting |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$20,200 |
| Scott Brown |
Regionalized Implications of Farm Programs |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$315,932 |
| Gene Garrett |
Developing and transferring science in support of agroforestry practices |
Agricultural Research Service |
$83,609 |
| Bryan Garton |
Inservice & Professional Development for Ag Instructors |
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education |
$76,016 |
| Bryan Garton |
Undergraduate Faculty Teaching Partnerships Project |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
$5,000 |
| Bryan Garton |
Farm Business Management Analysis Program |
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education |
$68,418 |
| Shelia Grant |
NER: Functionalized Nanoscale Materials for Sensor Architectures |
National Science Foundation |
$102,392 |
| Jonathan Green |
Development of Ovine Expressed Sequence Tags for the Study of Female Reproduction. |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$560,629 |
| Richard Guyette |
Multi millennia climate variability from ancient oak wood in the Midwest agricutltural ecosystem |
National Science Foundation Directorate Geosciences |
$83,974 |
| Hong He |
Assessing the Effects of Fuel Management Alternatives on Fire Risk and Vegetation Structure Using LANDIS Modeling |
Forest Service |
$85,675 |
| Jack Jones |
Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Task Agreement |
National Park Service |
$7,344 |
| Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes |
Manuscript FastTrack Journal for International Agricultural & Extension Education |
Association of International Ag and Extension Education |
$1,000 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Black-Footed Ferret Resource Selection |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
$15,178 |
| Joshua Millspaugh |
Population Ecology of Pronghorn in Western North Dakota |
North Dakota Game and Fish Department |
$40,000 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Real-time Monitoring of Cross-contamination of
Listeria monocytogenes Between Equipment/Environment
and Ready-to-eat Meat Products via a GFP Reporter |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$30,583 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Probiotic soymilk - inhibitory effects against Helicobacter pylori |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$50,000 |
| Azlin Mustapha |
Rapid Quantification of Culturable and Viable-But-Nonculturable
Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Beef Products Using EMA-Real Time PCR |
Missouri Beef Industry Council |
$30,383 |
| Henry Nguyen |
National Center for Soybean Biotechnology at the University of Missouri-Columbia |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$912,206 |
| Henry Nguyen |
Functional Genomics of Root Growth and Root Signals Under Drought |
National Science Foundation |
$1,211,765 |
| Melvin Oliver |
T-6-3622-120 (ARS-Plant Genetics) |
Agricultural Research Service |
$41,470 |
| Brian Ottis |
Rice Production Research in the Upper Mississippi River Delta Region |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$231,055 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Cooperative Agreement, Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$40,000 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Landscape influences on smallmouth bass populations |
Missouri Department of Conservation |
$58,500 |
| Charles Rabeni |
Identifying the environmental factors associated with physiological, behavioral, and population changes of Missouri River sturgeon. |
Geological Survey |
$68,859 |
| Grover Shannon |
Evaluation of Soybean Germplasm for Tolerance to Soil Waterlogging. |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$36,942 |
| Grover Shannon |
To Develop Productive Group IV and V Soybeans Resistant to Nematodes and Diseases 04-262 |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$68,686 |
| Grover Shannon |
Development soybeans for tofu and natto for Missouri 04-263 |
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$30,000 |
| Robert Sharp |
Screening and Characterization of Soybean Germplasm for Drought Tolerance |
Mo. Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$59,244 |
| David Sleper |
Molecular Mapping of Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nermatode in Soybean Lines PI437654 and PI438503A |
Mo. Soybean Merchandising Council (MSMC) |
$50,134 |
| Robert Weaber |
Genetic Parameter Estimation and Expected Progeny Difference Computation for Temperament Measures of Angus Cattle |
American Angus Association |
$5,000 |
| Patrick Westhoff |
Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute |
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service |
$840,539 |
| Zhanyuan Zhang |
Development of a high throughput Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for soybean (Glycine max) |
Mid-America Research and Development Foundation |
$59,052 |
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