2012 Research Grants

• CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (James Brown Faust)
  Evaluating the potential of a new mycorrhizal fungi, Piriformospora indica, to improve adventitious rooting of floriculture crops in propagation
  $10,000.00

• CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Neil S. Mattson)
  Increasing plant shelf-life with natural and chemical agents
  $10,000.00

• CORNELL UNIVERSITY (William B. Miller and Neil S. Mattson)
  Developing tools to aid timing of Hybrid Lilies
  $9,000.00

• KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY (Raymond A. Cloyd)
  Residual efficacy of systemic insecticides in regulating populations of the citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri
  $11,000.00

• KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY (Kimberly A. Williams)
  Understanding the role of microbial activity on nutrient availability from organic fertilizers in soilless production systems
  $10,800.00

• NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Steven D. Frank)
  Optimizing aphid biological control with banker plant systems
  $9,000.00

• NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Brian Whipker, Paul Nelson, Jared Barnes)
  Quantifying the factors which influence pH
  $10,000.00

• PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Roberto G. Lopez and Christopher J. Currey)
  Optimizing the daily light integral and nutrition during propagation of herbaceous floriculture crops
  $10,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (David J. Norman)
  Multilocus sequence analysis of Xanthomonads affecting poinsettia production
  $10,000.00

New York Florists’ Club Grants

• UNITED STATES DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) (Kathryn Kamo)
  Genetic engineering of Lilium longiflorum ‘Nellie White’ for nematode resistance
  $6,000.00

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE (Brian A. Krug)
  (Along with Brian Whipker-NCSU, Roberto Lopez-Purdue, Kimberly Williams- KSU, Raymond Cloyd-KSU and Margery Daughtrey-Cornell)
  eGRO – electronic Grower Resources Online
  $16,600.00

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
  (Chris Currey, Brian Krug, and Roberto Lopez)
  Daily light integral (DLI) calculator – DLICALC
  $1,000.00

TOTAL.......... $133,400.00

Total Research Grants 1961-2012.......... $6,090,010.90