Plant and Soil Sciences

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• 1118 Finished

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  Breeding project

  Van Sanford, D.

  Agricultural Research Service

  9/13/12 → 4/10/16

  Project: Research project

  • Wheat 100%
  • Breeding 83%
  • Varieties 66%
  • Screening 33%
  • Parents 33%

• Using Wheat as a Tool for Managing Palmer Amaranth

  Martin, J.

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Amaranthus palmeri 100%
  • Wheat 50%
  • Soybean 33%
  • Crops 33%
  • Herbicide 33%

• Small Grain Fragipan Remediation

  Karathanasis, A.

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Soil 100%
  • Crops 66%
  • Remediation 66%
  • Roots 33%
  • Root Growth 33%

• Soft Red Winter Wheat Breeding and Variety Development For Kentucky

  Van Sanford, D.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Breeding 100%
  • Wheat 100%
  • Varieties 66%
  • Leaf Rust 33%
  • Milling Quality 33%

• Multiple Uses for Switchgrass Stands Following Biomass Production

  Smith, S.

  Natural Resources Conservation Service

  9/1/12 → 12/31/15

  Project: Research project

  • Support 100%
  • Switchgrass 100%
  • Biomass 85%
  • Biomass Production 71%
  • Project 57%

• GIS and Cloud Computing Tools for Soil and Water Conservation: Grassed Waterways and Nitrogen Fertilizer Recommendations.

  Pfeiffer, T. & Mueller, T.

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Waterway 100%
  • Nitrogen 54%
  • Rate 54%
  • Fields 54%
  • Tool 36%

• Genotype x Environment x Management Interactions in Wheat

  Lee, C., Russell, K. & Van Sanford, D.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Wheat 100%
  • Crops 50%
  • Fields 50%
  • Varieties 50%
  • Environment 50%

• Managing Within-Field Variability of Winter Wheat # Upscaling from Transect to Field

  Wendroth, O., Egli, D., Lee, C. & Murdock, L.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Information 100%
  • Fields 100%
  • Utilization 75%
  • Variability 75%
  • Landscapes 75%

• KyFarmStart II: A Whole Farm Management Education Program for Beginning Farmers

  Meyer, A., Bewley, J., Hunter, J., Isaacs, S., Ritchey, E. & Katchova, A.

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  9/1/12 → 8/31/15

  Project: Research project

  • Programs 100%
  • Networks 50%
  • Education 25%
  • Potential Participant 25%
  • Content Option 25%

• Performance of Small Grain Varieties in Kentucky

  Bruening, W.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Varieties 100%
  • Grains 66%
  • Barley 66%
  • Research 33%
  • Growers 33%

• Small Grain Fragipan Remediation

  Murdock, L. & Karathanasis, A.

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Soil 100%
  • Crops 66%
  • Remediation 66%
  • Roots 33%
  • Root Growth 33%

• Evaluating Marestail Control with Wheat Herbicides

  Martin, J.

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Wheat 100%
  • Herbicide 57%
  • Crops 28%
  • Soybean 14%
  • Spring 14%

• Establishing Salvia hispanica as a Sustainable Grain Crop for KY Farmers

  Hildebrand, D.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/12 → 12/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Farmers 100%
  • Foods 50%
  • Oils 50%
  • Research 50%
  • Salvia Hispanica 50%

• On-Farm Biomass Processing: Towards an Integrated High Solids Transporting/Storing/Processing System

  Mueller, T.

  7/1/12 → 9/20/13

  Project: Research project

  • Biomass 100%
  • Product Stream 50%
  • Feedstock Production 50%
  • Processing 50%
  • Processing System 50%

• On-Farm Biomass Processing: Towards an Integrated High Solids Transporting/Storing/Processing System

  Lee, C.

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  7/1/12 → 6/30/16

  Project: Research project

  • Biomass 100%
  • Product Stream 50%
  • Feedstock Production 50%
  • Processing 50%
  • Processing System 50%

• Developing an Organic Corn Enterprise in Kentucky

  Meyer, A., Halich, G., Lee, C. & McNeill, S.

  University of Georgia

  7/1/12 → 7/1/12

  Project: Research project

  • Maize 100%
  • Farmers 37%
  • Marketing 37%
  • Project 37%
  • Prices 37%

• KSEF RDE: Host genetic control of strain-specific nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula

  Zhu, H.

  KY Science and Technology Co Inc

  7/1/12 → 6/30/14

  Project: Research project

  • Nitrogen Assimilation 100%
  • Nitrogen Fixation 100%
  • Legume 83%
  • Symbiosis 66%
  • Plant 50%

• On-Farm Biomass Processing: Towards an Integrated High Solids Transporting/Storing/Processing System

  Nokes, S., Crofcheck, C., DeBolt, S., Halich, G., Knutson, B., Lee, C., Lynn, B., Montross, M., Rankin, S., Seay, J., Smith, S., Stombaugh, T. & Mueller, T.

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  7/1/12 → 6/30/16

  Project: Research project

  • Biomass 100%
  • Product Stream 50%
  • Feedstock Production 50%
  • Processing 50%
  • Processing System 50%

• Soils Morphology Course

  Karathanasis, A.

  7/1/12 → 6/30/14

  Project: Research project

  • Program 100%
  • Soils 66%
  • Waste Water 66%
  • Soil Morphology 66%
  • University 66%

• KSEF RDE: Stability control of the microtubule-associated protein SPIRAL1 and its role in plant salt stress tolerance

  Smalle, J.

  KY Science and Technology Co Inc

  7/1/12 → 6/30/14

  Project: Research project

  • Salt Stress 100%
  • Microtubule 66%
  • Stress 44%
  • Mutant 33%
  • Proteasome 33%

• Developing an Organic Corn Enterprise in Kentucky

  McNeill, S., Halich, G., Lee, C. & Meyer, A.

  University of Georgia

  7/1/12 → 5/15/13

  Project: Research project

  • Marketing 100%
  • Project 66%
  • Professional Personnel 66%
  • Production 33%
  • Farmers 33%

• On-Farm Biomass Processing: Towards an Integrated High Solids Transporting/Storing/Processing System

  Smith, S.

  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  7/1/12 → 6/30/16

  Project: Research project

  • Biomass 100%
  • Product Stream 50%
  • Feedstock Production 50%
  • Processing 50%
  • Processing System 50%

• An Integrated Approach to Understand the Agronomic Responses to Poultry Litter Use and Soybean and Corn Production Systems

  Ritchey, E., Haramoto, E., Hershman, D. & Martin, J.

  KY Corn Growers Association

  7/1/12 → 6/30/18

  Project: Research project

• Monsanto Test - Service Order No. 13

  Slack, C. & Carter, S.

  Monsanto Co

  6/1/12 → 11/1/12

  Project: Research project

• Residual Timing for Marestail Control in Soybean. (Service order no 16)

  Martin, J.

  6/1/12 → 6/30/13

  Project: Research project

• Warrant Soybean tests 2012 - Service Order No. 15

  Slack, C. & Carter, S.

  Monsanto Co

  6/1/12 → 11/1/12

  Project: Research project

• Evaluation of Miscanthus Species as Feedstock Biofuels

  Williams, D.

  5/24/12 → 7/4/13

  Project: Research project

• Bayer Master Agreement-Field Trial

  Carter, S. & Slack, C.

  Bayer CropScience GmbH

  5/10/12 → 12/10/12

  Project: Research project

• Seeded Switchgrass Yield Trial--Annex 1

  Smith, S.

  CERES Inc.

  5/7/12 → 7/4/13

  Project: Research project

• REU: Collaborative Proposal: CPSF30 atthe convergence of RNA processing, cellular signaling, and development in plants

  Hunt, A.

  National Science Foundation

  5/7/12 → 8/31/13

  Project: Research project

  • Experience 100%
  • Plant 75%
  • Sequencing 50%
  • Mutant 50%
  • Wild Type 25%

• Raising Soybean Yield Potential in Dry Seasons: Increased Rooting Depth and Greater Soil Water Extraction with Deeper Depth to the Fragipan

  Grove, J. & Ritchey, E.

  KY Soybean Promotion Board

  4/1/12 → 3/31/13

  Project: Research project

• Survey of herbicide resistant Palmer amaranth and waterhemp

  Martin, J. & Witt, W.

  4/1/12 → 3/31/13

  Project: Research project

• Soybean Management Verification Program: 2012

  Lee, C., Herbek, J. & Murdock, L.

  KY Soybean Promotion Board

  4/1/12 → 3/31/13

  Project: Research project

• An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Poultry Litter Use in Corn-Soybean Production Systems

  Ritchey, E., Hershman, D. & Martin, J.

  KY Soybean Promotion Board

  4/1/12 → 3/31/13

  Project: Research project

• Evaluation of Altria Burley Breedling Lines

  Miller, R.

  3/15/12 → 3/14/13

  Project: Research project

• Development of two-dimensional field flow fractionation techniques for analysis of engineered nanoparticles in soil and sediment pore waters and extracts.

  Unrine, J.

  Environmental Protection Agency

  3/1/12 → 2/28/15

  Project: Research project

  • Soil 100%
  • Water 50%
  • Porewater 50%
  • Fields 25%
  • Extraction 25%

• Introducing the Pale Yellow Gene into Increased Chlorophyll Burley

  Fisher, C. & Li, D.

  Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Inc

  3/1/12 → 4/1/15

  Project: Research project

  • Tobacco 100%
  • Genes 33%
  • Chlorophyll 33%
  • Genetic Marker 33%
  • Growers 33%

• DTS Soybean - Service Order No. 14

  Carter, S. & Slack, C.

  Monsanto Co

  3/1/12 → 12/31/12

  Project: Research project

• Synthetic Crop for Direct Biofuel Production through Re-routing the Photorespiration Intermediates and Engineering Terpenoid Pathways#

  Chappell, J.

  2/15/12 → 8/14/13

  Project: Research project

  • Nested Gene 100%
  • Synthase 85%
  • Transgenics 57%
  • Ti Plasmid (Plant) 42%
  • Plasmid Vector 42%

• Enhancement of Soybean Somatic Embryo Development to Improve Regeneration and Transformation Efficiency

  Perry, S.

  United Soybean Brd

  1/1/12 → 6/30/13

  Project: Research project

• Agronomic Maximization of Soybean Yield and Quality

  Lee, C.

  University of Minnesota

  1/1/12 → 12/31/14

  Project: Research project

  • Soybean 100%
  • Research 50%

• Comparing CornSystems in Wide and Narrow Rows (Year 2)

  Lee, C. & Green, J.

  KY Corn Promotion Council

  1/1/12 → 12/31/12

  Project: Research project

• Synchrotron X-Ray Microprobe and Microspectroscopy Research at Low Temperature Geochemistry

  Unrine, J. & Bertsch, P.

  The University of Chicago

  11/15/11 → 1/14/15

  Project: Research project

  • Beamline 100%
  • Maintenance 66%
  • Fabrication 33%
  • Universities 16%
  • X Ray 16%

• Soil hydrologic Processes and Watershed Dynamics in the Shawnee Hills, Major Land Resource Area 115 & 120

  Lee, B.

  Natural Resources Conservation Service

  10/1/11 → 9/30/14

  Project: Research project

  • Soil 100%
  • Watershed 100%
  • Variability 100%
  • Area 100%
  • Landscape 100%

• Equipment Purchase: The Value of Manure Research in Kentucky.

  Ritchey, E.

  KY Corn Growers Association

  10/1/11 → 9/30/12

  Project: Research project

• Restoring imperiled grassland wildlife through grazing innovation in the eastern United States

  Smith, S. & Ditsch, D.

  University of Tennessee

  9/15/11 → 9/30/15

  Project: Research project

  • Grazing 100%
  • Pastures 85%
  • Weeds 57%
  • Wildlife 42%
  • Water 42%

• A population-based case-control study of lung cancer in Appalachian Kentucky: The role of environmental carcinogens

  Arnold, S., Baron, A., Hahn, E., Hopenhayn, C., Huang, B., Johnson, N., Mellon, I., Orren, D., Sanderson, W., Unrine, J. & Pulliam, J.

  Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

  9/15/11 → 6/14/16

  Project: Research project

  • Lung Cancer 100%
  • Case-Control Study 50%
  • Incidence 33%
  • Carcinogen 33%
  • Trace Element 33%

• Organize and Coordinating the 2012 South Region CSS Conference

  Karathanasis, A.

  9/6/11 → 9/30/12

  Project: Research project

  • Congressional Report 100%
  • Region 100%
  • Support 50%

• Survey of the Tissue Nutrient Status of Winter Wheat in Kentucky

  Ritchey, E.

  KY Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/11 → 12/31/12

  Project: Research project

• Further Development of Chia as a New Grain Crop for KY

  Hildebrand, D.

  KY Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/11 → 12/31/12

  Project: Research project