Published by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Vol. 6, No. 3, May/June 07

Grants Awarded April and May 2007

There were a total of 37 grants awarded for the two months of April and May. Note: Some of the dollar amounts listed below represent awards that span more than one reporting period.

PI Project Title Agency
Amount
Wayne Bailey Corn Rootworm Control and Yield Performance in Late Maturity Field Corn Syngenta Crop Protection Inc $3,150
Chris Barnett Development of a Web interface and interpretation engine to generate soil interpretations from soil laboratory and SSURGO data. Department of Agriculture $99,283
Chris Barnett Floodplain mapping for Pulaski County, Missouri AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc $58,892
Chris Barnett Floodplain mapping for Henry County, Missouri AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc $86,319
Georgia Davis Genomic Evaluation of the Defense Response of Maize (Zea mays L.) against Herbivory by the Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera LeConte) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $92,000
James English Development of Soybean Germplasm with Designed Resistance to Soybean Rust and Other Diseases Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance $98,000
Gene Garrett Thomas Hickman House Preservation, Renovation and Improvement Projects in Howard County, Missouri National Park Service $246,322
Gene Garrett Livestock Odor Abatement Grant Proposal Missouri Department of Agriculture $111,000
Thomas Guilfoyle Auxin Response Factors and Auxin-Regulated Gene Expression National Science Foundation $158,722
Richard Guyette Using Tree Ring Analysis to Determine Fire History In the Oklahoma Ozarks Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation $12,656
Fu-hung Hsieh Commercial Technologies for Highly Functional of Polyols Derived from Soybean Oil Smith Bucklin and Associates $76,065
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes The Hawthorn Foundation Unitized Agreements Hawthorn Foundation $5,000
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes Agrobiotechnology in China: Competitiveness Impacts on U.S. Soybean Export Markets Virginia Polytech Inst and State University $52,554
Michael Kaylen TERI Tourism Project FY2006-2009 Missouri Division of Tourism $350,000
Monty Kerley Developing Functional Food Products from Plant Biotechnologies Illinois-Missouri Biotech Alliance $90,278
Patrick Market Improving Our Understanding of Heavy Rainfall Events in South Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country University Corporation for Atmospheric Research $9,568
Anne McKendry Fusarium Head Blight Research in Winter Wheat Agricultural Research Service $116,352
Seth Meyer Structural Models US and Rest of World Natural Fiber Market Texas Tech University $45,000
Joshua Millspaugh A Statistical Protocol for Monitoring Ruffed-grouse in the Black Hills Forest Service $25,466
Michael Nolan Senior Regional Environmental Advisor Foreign Ag Service $138,985
Michael Nolan Africa Bureau - Technical Support Foreign Ag Service $301,817
Michael Nolan Special Training-58-3148-7-098-Restaurant Training Foreign Ag Service $24,632
Douglas B. Noltie Development of laboratory methods for propagating the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) Geological Survey $37,000
Stephen Pallardy National Atmospheric Deposition Program Geological Survey $7,989
Andrea Phillips 2007 Protocol for Replicated Cotton Variety Testing: Monsanto Service Order #23 Monsanto Corporation $18,450
Charles Rabeni Freshwater mussels at Marais des Cygnes NWR: Sediment load, microhabitat, minimum in-stream flows. Geological Survey $11,000
Linda Randall Export of Proteins in Esherichia coli National Institutes of Health $454,039
Timothy Reinbott Improve Propagation Techniques, Conduct Research and Increase Landowner Outreach and Agricultural Applications of Select Native Plant Species Missouri Department of Conservation $50,000
Mark Ryan Effect of incidental takings on the population viability of Great Plains piping plovers Geological Survey $23,778
John Sadler T-6-3622-155 (Cropping Systems) Agricultural Research Service $104,072
Grover Shannon Identification and utilization of exotic germplasm to improve soybean productivity Agricultural Research Service $39,725
David Sleper Development of improved soybean varieties with high yield and high protein in maturity groups III-IV. Agricultural Research Service $91,750
Scott Sowa Developing reach-specific watershed data on nonpoint pollution sources for stream reaches within the 1:100,000 National Hydrography Dataset of Missouri Mo. Department of Natural Resources $99,410
Jerry Taylor Oligo Agreement - Roslin Institute Roslin Institute Edinburgh $5,086
Kelly Tindall Evaluation of Sampling Procedures for Detecting Tarnished Plant Bug Populations in Cotton: MO Cotton Incorporated $20,000
Simeon Wright Plant Diagnostic Center Laboratory (Soybean Rust) Michigan State University $40,000
Zhanyuan Zhang Development of transgenic soybean (Glycine max) for expression analysis of candidate promoters and genes Dow Agrosciences, LLC $100,000