2006-07 Seed Grant Program Funded Abstracts and Final Reports
The purpose of this program is to provide the College of Agricultural Sciences faculty and field-based educators with the resources (research, extension and instruction) to develop collaborative teams and/or preliminary information in new or expanding arenas of granting opportunity. These grants are intended to permit faculty to develop the linkages and data to enhance competitiveness for additional external funding. Funding for this program came from research, extension, and teaching sources.
The College received 53 grant proposals, from which 23 projects were funded for a total of $327,618. Successful investigators will submit a progress report of their project activities by September 1, 2007, and they have also agreed as a condition of these grants to develop a proposal for external funding in 2007-2008.
Click on the titles of the proposals below to view abstracts and final reports.
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
- Pennsylvania's Forgotten Rural Immigrants: Strengthening Pennsylvania's Diverse Communities
Principal Investigator: Fern K. Willits - Milk Production and Processing Profitability with Penn State and University of Guanajuato Extension and Research
Principal Investigator: Gregory D. Hanson
Crop and Soil Sciences
- X-ray Crystal Structure of Mir1-CP, a Maize Cysteine Protease with Insecticidal Properties
Principal Investigator: Dawn S. Luthe
Entomology
- Lignocelluose Digestion in the Gut of the Asian Longhorned Beetle
Principal Investigator: Kelli Hoover
Food Science
- Prevalence and Control of Foodborne Pathogens Associated with Poultry Processed in Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator: Catherine Cutter
- Testing the Impact of Supper Club Participation on Family Member Vegetable Acceptance and Intake
Principal Investigator: J. Lynne Brown
Horticulture
- Undergraduate Research Experiences in Assessing the Effects of Global Warming on Ecosystem Structure and Function in Greenland Arctic Tundra
Principal Investigator: David M. Eissenstat - Programmed Cell Death: Genes Regulating Cortical Cell Aerenchyma Formation
Principal Investigator: Kathleen M. Brown - Development of Risk-Management Strategies for Re-establishing Peach Orchards Following the First Occurrence of Plum Pox Virus in the United States
Principal Investigator: James R. Schupp - Mechanisms of the Biocontrol of Plant Parasitic Nematodes of Nematophagous Fungi
Principal Investigator: Seogchan Kang - Underground Drugs: Production of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine in Mushrooms
Principal Investigator: C. Peter Romaine - How Does Plant Stress Induce Resistance to Fire Blight?
Principal Investigator: Henry K. Ngugi
Poultry Science
- Visfatin: A Novel Hormone Affecting Glucose Utilization in the Chicken
Principal Investigator: Ramesh Ramachandran
School of Forest Resources
- Development of Artificial Streams to Address Nutrient and Water Management Issues: Perennial Experimental and Educational Tools
Principal Investigator: Hunter Carrick
- Cellulose Binding Domains (CBDs): A tool for the Innovative Assembly of Cellulosic Materials
Principal Investigator: Nicole R. Brown
- Assessing the Structural Complexity of Eastern Hardwoods for Long-Term Silvicultural Research, Resident Education and Extension
Principal Investigator: Eric Zenner
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Regulation of Carcinogen Bio-Activation by Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Beta/Delta
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Peters - Role of the Ah Receptor in Shunting Benzo(a)pyrene Reactive Metabolites to the Cell Nucleus
Principal Investigator: Gary H. Perdew
- Regulation of T-Cell Function by Eosinophils
Principal Investigator: Avery August
- A Comprehensive Survey of Zoonotic Occupational Health Risks of Women in Animal Agriculture
Principal Investigator: Bhushan Jayarao - Towards Understanding Mumps Virus Outbreak in Iowa
Principal Investigator: Biao He
- Comparative Genomic Approach to Investigate Hypervirulence of B. bronchiseptica
Principal Investigator: Eric T. Harvill
- Role of BMP4 Signaling in the Recovery from Chemotherapy Induced Anemia
Principal Investigator: Robert F. Paulson
