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

September-October 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 5

Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness

E. Wailes. USDA CSREES—Prime. Agricultural trade analysis. $42,000.

Animal Science

C. Maxwell. Alltech Biotechnology Center. Swine nutrition research. $9,800.

Biological & Agricultural Engineering

 I. Chaubey, M. Matlock and S. Bajwa. US EPA. Environmental resource management to develop watershed technologies and management tools. $148,800.

B. Haggard. USDA ARS. Research support. $11,000.

J.-W. Kim, R. Deaton and S. Tung. USDA CSREES. NRICGP. Engineering ultrasensitive, electrically addressable nanotube-wire through controlled DNA-nanotube interfacing. $157,000.

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

C. West, C. Rosenkrans and S. Gunter. USDA ARS. Reduction of fescue toxicosis through plant and animal management. $290,457.

P. Moore. USDA ARS. FY05 research support. $56,606.

E. Rutledge. USDA NRCS. Arkansas Soil Characterization Database Project 2005 (Soil Survey Manuscripts). $8,105.

N. Burgos. USDA CSREES—Prime. BASF Corporation. So. region program to clear pest control agents for minor uses (2005 IR-4 support for performance trials). Weed Physiology. $9,000.

R. Norman. Various Sources. Soil fertility and plant nutrition. $14,843.

L. Purcell. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Soybean physiology. $2,000.

L. Oliver. Syngenta. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Weed science. $23,500.

Rice Tec, Inc. Rice genetic research. $1,875.

D. Dombek. Various Sources. Corn, grain sorghum, soybean variety testing. $58,450.

N. Slaton. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Soybean testing and plant analysis. $8,500.

M. Savin. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Soil microbiology. $6,000.

D. Oosterhuis. Agrimar Corporation. Cotton research. $14,900.

R. Bacon. USDA CSREES—Prime. 2006 Southern Regional Canola Research Program. $36,000.

Entomology

D. Steinkraus and F. Stephen. USDA FS. Development of microbial biological control agents for control of red oak borer in Arkansas. $10,000.

D. Johnson. USDA CSREES—Prime. Special Grant. Insecticide efficacy trial for raspberry crown borer on blackberry, 2005. $1,000.

P. McLeod. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Entomology advancement. $7,000.

R. Luttrell. Monsanto Company. Mr. G.H. McKibben. Phermone trap research. Cotton insect research. $12,500.

R. Weidenmann. Monsanto Company. Identification of insects in soybean and corn fields. $5,724.

F. Goggin. California Tomato Commission. Plant activators and genetic resistance for integrated management of nematodes and aphids on tomato. $25,165.

D. Steinkraus and T. Teague. USDA CSREES. Pest Management Alternative Program. Trap crops and biopesticides for tarnished plant bug control to reduce reliance on organophosphate insecticides in Midsouth cotton. $111,373.

F. Stephen. USDA FS. Applied silvicultural assessment of southern pine beetle in southern pine stands west of the Mississippi River—a spatial environment for the Arkansas simulation model of SPB population dynamics. $50,064.

Food Science

J. Morris. E & J Gallo Winery. USDA CSREES. Special Grant. Institute of Food Science and Engineering (2005). E & J Gallo Winery research. $1,126,180.

T. Siebenmorgen. Buhler AG. Lundberg Family Farms. Rice processing research. Rice processing research program.

J.-F. Meullenet. Rheology and sensory research. $15,500.

Horticulture

C. Rom. USDA CSREES—Prime. SARE. Best Management Practices for organic orchard nutrition. $200,000.

J. Correll. California Spinach Growers. Spinach research. $6,000.

M. Richardson. The Scotts Company. Grass research. $3,500.

D. Karcher. Helena Chemical Company. Turfgrass research. $3,450.

Human Environmental Science

J. Foote. US Department of Education (Prime). Nutrition component for the Coordinated School Health and Physical Education Program at Pocola Public Schools. $35,000.

Interdisciplinary—Other

G. Weidemann. USDA CSREES. Special Research Grant. Animal Science Food Safety Consortium 2005. $713,841.

Northeast Research & Extension Center

 F. Bourland. Emergent Genetics. Cotton variety testing 2005. $6,500.

Plant Pathology

R. Riggs. Monsanto company. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Soybean nematode research. $18,765.

J. Rupe. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Spore trapping. $15,000.

Poultry Science

Y.M. Kwon. National Institutes of Health. Genome scanning for virulence genes in bacteria. $270,393.

H. Chapman. Tyson Foods, Inc. Poultry parasitology research. $1,500.

P. Waldroup. Cargill, Inc. Poultry nutrition research. $5,000.

G. Erf. National Institutes of Health. Autoimmune vitiligo: gene-expression during pathogenesis. $208,163.

W. Kuenzel. USDA CSREES. NRICGP. A neurobehavioral approach to address fertility in male broiler breeders. $360,000.

Rice Research & Extension Center

M. Anders. Rice Tec, Inc. Crop systems. $1,600.

K. Moldenhauer. Rice Tec, Inc. Rice evaluation enhancement. $1,875.

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

J. Bernhardt. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Rice insect research. $6,000.

School of Forestry Resources

P. Doruska. USDA FS. Individual tree weight equations and stem bulk density for upland hardwood species in Arkansas. $5,000.

D. White. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Noninvasive genetic sampling techniques to estimate population size of a black bear population in west-central Arkansas. $22,516.

R. Weih. Entergy. Geographic information systems/remote sensing research. $3,000.

Southeast Research & Extension Center

J. Greene. Monsanto Company. Early season insect management in Bollgard II/Roundup Ready flex cotton. $3,000.

K. Smith. Monsanto Company. Weed management in Roundup Ready flex cotton. $5,000.

Southwest Research & Extension Center

T. Kirkpatrick. Syngenta. Plant disease research. $41,000.