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Southwest Consortium on Plant Genetics and Water Resources PREPROPOSALS submitted for FY 11 funding
1. EXPLOITING NATURAL VARIATION IN PLANT ADAPTATION TO SALINITY TO
IDENTIFY SALT TOLERANCE GENES. Karen Schumaker (Lead PI), Associate Prof, School of
Plant Sciences, UA; Rod Wing, Professor, School of Plant Sciences UA
2. CHARACTERIZATION OF A TRANSPIRATION EFFICIENCY LOCUS THAT IS
ASSOCIATED WITH ALFALFA BIOMASS PRODUCTIVITY DURING DROUGHT. Champa
Sengupta- Gopalan (Lead PI), Professor, Plant and Environmental Sci, NMSU; Ian Ray, Professor, Plant
and Environmental Sci, NMSU
3. IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL GENES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DROUGHT AND SALT
TOLERANCE IN CROPS. Huazhong Shi (Lead PI), Assistant Professor, Dept Chem and Biochem,
TTU; Hang Zhang, Professor, Dept Biological Sciences, TTU
4. EFFECT OF SALINITY ON THE LOCOWEED/ENDOPHYTE INTERACTION AND
SWAINSONINE CONCENTRATION. Rebecca Creamer (Lead PI), Associate Professor, Entomology,
Plant Path and Weed Sci (EPPWS), NMSU; Nina Klypin, Science Specialist, EPPWS, NMSU;
Collaborators: William Lindeman, Professor, Plant and Environmental Sci, NMSU; Tracy Sterling,
Professor, Dept Head, Land Resources and Environmental Sci, Montana State U., affiliate professor
NMSU
5. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PLANT SIGNALING RESPONSE TO ELICITORS IN
INSECTS. Noah Whiteman (Lead PI), Assistant Professor, Dept Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
UA; Frans Tax, Associate Professor, Dept Plant Sciences, UA
6. ROLE OF AN A20-LIKE UBIQUITIN LIGASE IN THE REGULATION OF PLANT STRESS
RESPONSES. Mohamed Fokar, Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Center for
Biotechnology and Genomics, TTU; David Knaff, (Paul W. Horn) Professor, Dept Chemistry and
Biochemistry, TTU; Susan San Francisco, Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Center for
Biotechnology and Genomics, TTU
7. GENETIC ENGINEERING SAFFLOWER FOR ENHANCED DROUGHT AND SALT
TOLERANCE. Hong Zhang (Lead PI), Professor, Dept Biological Sci., TTU; Dick Auld, Rockwell
Endowed Chair in Plant and Soil Science, Dept of Plant and Soil Science, TTU; Sangu Angadi, Assistant
Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences, NMSU; Paxton Payton, Research Scientist, USDA-ARS
Cropping Systems Laboratory, Adjunct Professor, TTU
8. CONTROLLING ABA SIGNALING AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN TURFGRASS USING
‘STRESS TOLERANT’ FUNGICIDES. James Baird (Lead PI) Assistant Specialist in Cooperative
Extension, Turfgrass Science, Dept Botany and Plant Sci, UCR; Sean Cutler, Associate Professor, Dept
Botany and Plant Sci, UCR; Martha Orozco-Cardenas, Director, Plant Transformation Center, Dept
Botany and Plant Sci, UCR
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Southwest Consortium on Plant Genetics and Water Resources PREPROPOSALS submitted for FY 11 funding
9. A NOVEL NEXT-GEN SEQUENCING APPROACH TO CLONE QUANTITATIVE TRAIT
LOCI FOR WITHIN-BOLL LINT PERCENT IN COTTON. Christopher Rock (Lead PI), Associate
Professor, Dept Biological Sci, TTU; Glenn Hicks, associate Research Plant Cell Biologist, Botany and
Plant Sciences, UCR; Jane Dever, Associate Professor (adjunct), Dept Plant and Soils Sci, TTU; Manoj
Samanta, Director, Systemix Institute, Redland, WA
10. USE OF MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL GENETICS TO DESIGN NEW STRATEGIES TO
MEDIATE HOST RESISTANCE AGAINST CHARCOAL ROT, A PLANT DISEASE
STRONGLY AFFECTING CROP PRODUCTION IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID AREAS. Thomas
Eulgem (Lead PI), Associate Professor, Dept Botany and Plant Sciences, UCR; Philip Roberts, Professor,
Dept of Nematology, UCR; Jess Ehlers, Specialist, Dept Botany and Plant Sci, UCR.
11. SNP MARKERS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN COTTON. Thea
Wilkins (Lead PI), Bayer CropScinece Regents Professor, Dept Plant and Soil Sci, TTU; Jinfa Zhang,
Associate Professor, Dept of Plant and Environmental Sci, NMSU; Collaborator, Gregory May, Director,
Genome Center, Santa Fe NM
12. DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF BIOSENSORS FOR PLANT RESPONSES TO THE
ENVIRONMENT, FOCUSING ON THE PHLOEM. David Galbraith (Lead PI), Professor, Dept of
Plant Sciences, UA; Geoffrey Waldo, PhD Technical staff Life Sciences Dept, Los Alamos National
Labs
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