2006 Research Grants

• KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY (Kimberly A. Williams)
  Phosphorus retention of clay-type amendments in soilless media for greenhouse crop production: Is there a performance advantage?
  $10,000.00

• NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
  (B.A. Krug and B.E. Whipker)
  Establishing best management practices for avoiding boron deficiency in pansy and gerbera plugs
  $8,000.00

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (Michelle L. Jones)
  Protein expression profiling during flower senescence: A proteomic approach to enhancing post production quality
  $10,000.00

• PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Natalia Dudareva)
  New scent genes: Gateway to original creation
  $11,000.00

• TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (Yin-Tung Wang)
  Effects of nutrient supply and cooling on growth, flower bud differentiation, and propagation of the nobile dendrobium orchid
  $10,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Michael R. Evans)
  Use of silica to inhibit soil-borne fungal pathogens of greenhouse crops $7,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Lorence R. Oki)
  Optimizing slow sand filters to remove plant pathogens from irrigation runoff for reuse
  $12,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Michael P. Parrella)
  Potassium silicate enhances resistance of floriculture crops to insect attacks
  $6,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA  (David G. Clark)                      
  Gene function analysis in transgenic petunias
  $9,000.00               

• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (Zhanao Deng and Brent K. Harbaugh)   
  Breeding for improvement of cold tolerance in caladium
  $8,000.00  

• UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS  
  (Richard A. Larson and Raymond A. Cloyd)   
  The effect of extracts derived from organic growing medium components in controlling fungus gnats, Bradysia spp. (Diptera: Sciaridae) in greenhouses
  $10,000.00  

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA  (John Erwin)                                           
  What causes flowering in cacti and succulents?
  $5,000.00             

• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON  (Veronica S. Di Stilio)                
  The genetic basis of flower variation in Thalictrum (Ranunculaceae)
  $8,000.00  

• WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY  (Gary Chastagner)             Development of real-time PCR based assays to quantify inoculum levels of Fusarium and Rhizoctonia pathogens on ornamental bulb crops
  $10,000.00       

• VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE  (Holly L. Scoggins)  UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA  (James L. Gibson)   
  Nutritional management of perennial stock plants to optimize cutting
  quantity and quality
  $12,000.00  

New York Florists’ Club Grants

• CORNELL UNIVERSITY  (John P. Sanderson)
  Developing the use of hunter fly, Coenosia attenuata, as a predator of greenhouse pests        
  $8,000.00             

• PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY  
  (Maria del Mar Jimenez-Gasco)               
  Effect of low-dose fungicides on populations of soilborne pathogens of ornamental crops
   $12,000.00

• UNIVERSTIY OF GEORGIA  (Marc van Iersel)
  UNIVERSITY OF MAINE  (Stephanie Burnett)   
  Irrigation and automation in greenhouses:  Better crops with less water
  $6,400.00

2006 TOTAL: $162,400.00

Total Research Grants 1961-2006: $5,288,210.90