$9,732 Iowa
State University (Christopher J. Currey) Determining
the effect of photoperiod, light intensity, and stress on flowering
and tuberization of modern begonia hybrids
$15,000 Kansas
State University (Raymond A. Cloyd) –Management
of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, populations
in greenhouses by combining the biological control agents, the
insidious flower bug, Orius insidiosus, and the rove beetle, Dalotia
coriaria