Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

A newsletter for faculty, staff and students

November-December 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 6

Grants Awarded

July and August 2004

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

J. Popp and S. Pollard. Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. Leave no waste: Multi-family dwelling solid waste characterization recyclables and food waste recovery pilot project. $8,600.

H. Goodwin. USDA NRCS. Feasibility assessment of establishing the Ozark Litter Bank. $200,000.

Animal Sciences

F. Pohlman. Arkansas Beef Council. Value enhancement of lower-value beef cuts. $42,100.

J. Apple. Arkansas Beef Council. Preharvest intervention to reduce Escherichia coli O157:H7 on fat cattle destined for harvest. Influence of poultry fat addition to finishing rations on cattle performance, carcass characteristics, retail beef shelf life, and cooked beef palatability. $56,926.

C. Maxwell. Agtech Products. Evaluation of bacillus cultures (88/18) administered in the diets of nursery pigs on growth performance. $9,876.

Biological & Agricultural Engineering

G. Huitink and A. Bajwa. Cotton Foundation. Precision farming technology for developing subsoiling guidelines in Arkansas. $15,000.

M. Matlock. US EPA. Wadeable stream assessment in Arkansas. $226,864.

T. Costello. NASA. GSRP: Heat transfer within a hypobaric plant growth chamber. $24,000.

B. Haggard and M. Matlock. US EPA (Prime). Development of a lotic ecosystem trophic status index using periphytometers. $4,000. 

Cooperative Extension Service

W. Ross, D. Beaty, J. Kelley, T. Reaper and T. Windham. Arkansas Wheat Promotion Board. Wheat research verification program. $70,846.

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

R. Bacon. Stuttgart Seed Company. Alice-Sidney Dryer & Seed Company. Wheat variety testing. $700.

R. Norman. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Agrotain International. Soil fertility and plant nutrition. $7,500.

D. Oosterhuis. Cotton Incorporated. LTA Resource Management. Measurement and prediction of boll internal temperature for comparison with ambient temperature for calculation of heat units to determine defoliation timing. Cotton research. $25,000.

S. Gunter, C. West and C. Rosenkrans. USDA ARS. Reduction of fescue toxicosis through plant and animal management. $294,457.

R. Bacon and J. Kelly. Arkansas Wheat Promotion Board. Breeding for improved wheat varieties. $70,960.

P. Chen. Integrative Nutrition Inc. Monsanto Company. Soybean genetic research. $3,650.

J. Mattice. Agricultural Research Initiatives. Pesticide research. $5,600.

N. Burgos. Monsanto Company. BASF Corporation. Weed physiology. $13,500.

Director of the Station

B. Hargis, D. Edmark, D. Donoghue, G. Weidemann, Y. Li, M. Johnson, M. Slavik and N. Hettiarachchy. USDA CSREES. Food Safety Consortium. $717,900.

Entomology

R. Luttrell. Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Establish baseline susceptibility of Heliothis virescens and Helicoverpa zea to Vip3A protein. $15,000.

D. Steinkraus. USDA ARS. Cotton planting date and augmentation of neozgites fresenii epizootics by inoculation. $5,000.

D. Johnson. USDA CSREES (Prime). Rhone-Poulenc Animal Nutrition. Southern Region IR-4. $6,000.

P. McLeod. USDA CSREES (Prime). Southern Region IR-4. $5,000.

F. Goggin. California Tomato Commission. Plant activators and genetic resistance for nematode and aphid control on tomato. $16,242.

F. Stephen. USDA FS. Assessment, monitoring, and analysis of red oak borer populations. $35,400.

M. Meisch. Clarke Mosquito Control. Management methodologies, $4,000.

Food Science

J. Morris. USDA CSREES. Special Grant. Institute for Food Science and Engineering (2004). $1,014,995. E&J Gallo Winery. Wine research. $90,000.

McCormick Company. Food Science Building expansion. $11,000.

T. Siebenmorgen. Various Sources. Rice processing research. Assessing rice degrees of milling. $231,665.

R. Buescher. Warzynski Paradise Farms. Value-added pickled vegetable research. $1,000.

A. Proctor. US Department of Education. Renewable resources in clean technology. $34,430.

L. Howard. Bush Brothers & Company. Kinetics of bean softening and color degradation. $33,332.

Horticulture

T. Morelock and D. Motes. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. Cucumbers, spinach, peas research and vegetable substation support. $1,000.

M. Richardson. Various Sources. Grass research. $13,296.

Human Environmental Sciences

S. Takigiku. Mental Health Association in Northwest Arkansas. A pilot study of the effect of methamphetamine use on the mental health of rural women in NW Arkansas. $1,000.

Interdisciplinary—Division of Agriculture

R. Scott, L. Oliver and N. Burgos. Arkansas Wheat Promotion Board. Weed management in wheat. $51,214.

Interdisciplinary—Other

Y. Jia, Y. Yang, J. Rutger, J. Correll and K. Moldenhauer. USDA CSREES. NRICGP. A coordinated research, education and extension project for the application of genomic discoveries to improve rice in the United States. $1,000,000.

Plant Pathology

Y. Yang. IRRI (USAID Prime). Functional analysis of drought-associated regulatory genes and high throughput RNA interference in rice. $80,000.

C. Rothrock. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Cotton. $10,000.

E. Milus. Arkansas Wheat promotion Board. Germplasm enhancement for disease resistance. $50,295.

R. Riggs. Delta and Pine Land Co. Schilinger Seed. Soybean nematode research. $2,938.

Poultry Science

W. Kuenzel and J. Kirby. National Science Foundation (Prime). Cloning and functional characterization of an avian pituitary gland vasotocin receptor. $74,467.

B. Hargis. Titan Corp. Evaluation of BIT application on salmonella-contaminated chicken carcasses and effect of application on embryos inside. $8,107.

J. Emmert. United Feeds. Phytex. Practical incorporation of E. coli phytase: impact on growth and processing parameters. Nutrition research. $17,500.

Cobb-Vantress, Inc. broiler Breeder Research Facility. $18,446.

J. Kirby. National Science Foundation. Acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope for the molecular biosciences. $296,862.

P. Waldroup. Tyson Foods, Inc. Loders Croklaan. Poultry nutrition research. $12,000.

Rice Research & Extension Center

J. Rutger. USDA ARS. Research support. $99,054.

School of Forest Resources

R. Kluender. USDA CSREES. Special Grant. Arkansas Forest Resources Center: A continuing program, phase XI. $425,314.

D. White. US DOI NPS. Bull elk ecology study 2005. $23,838.

C. Walls. UAP Timberland LLC. Forestry technical support. $7,500.

M. Pelkki. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company. Forest policy research. $3,000.

Southeast Research & Extension Center

K. Smith. Cotton Foundation. Cotton defoliation work group committee uniform Harvest Aid Evaluation Program. $6,500.

J. Greene. USDA ARS. Beltwide collection of bollworm and tobacco budworm moths in traps for monitoring studies. $3,000.

Southwest Research & Extension Center

S. Gunter. Arkansas Beef Council. QualiTech, Inc. The effects of antimicrobial use on the development of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in Arkansas feeder cattle. Effect of SQM-4-SR on replacement heifer development. $44,508.