Sequencing-Related Grants Awarded in 2006 Under NSF's Plant Genome Research Project Program
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Principal Investigator Organization Amount Awarded to Date
Comparative Genomics of A Rice Centromere
8/1/06
7/31/07
Jiang, Jiming University of Wisconsin-Madison
$796,586
The Maize TILLING Project: Reverse Genetics of Maize Point Mutations
8/15/06
7/31/08
Weil, Clifford Purdue University
$1,617,351
Generation of Potato Sequence and Annotation Resources
10/1/06
9/30/07
Buell, C. Robin Institute for Genomic Research
$693,024
Completing the Sequence of Medicago truncatula's Gene-Rich Euchromatin
10/1/06
3/31/08
Young, Nevin University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
$4,156,624
Comparative Genomics of Secretory Trichomes - Biofactories for Production of Plant Secondary Metabolites
10/1/06
9/30/07
Dixon, Richard Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.
$502,770
Exploiting Tomato Genomics Resources to Investigate Basal Plant Defenses Against Pathogens
7/15/06
6/30/07
Collmer, Alan Cornell University — State
$591,972
Genomic tool development for the Fagaceae
9/1/06
8/31/07
Sederoff, Ronald North Carolina State University
$706,548
Comparative Genomics of Legume Disease Resistance Gene Homologs
8/1/06
7/31/07
Cook, Douglas University of California-Davis
$1,330,108
U.S. Contribution to the International Solanaceae Genome Effort
12/1/06
11/30/07
Giovannoni, James Boyce Thompson Institute Plant Research
$1,535,497
Characterization of Rice Genomes and Transcriptomes Using Novel Sequencing Technologies
9/1/06
8/31/07
McCombie, W. Richard Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
$1,891,911
Arabidopsis 2010: A Comprehensive Resource for Analysis of Arabidopsis Gene Function
9/1/06
8/31/07
Hannon, Gregory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
$1,078,000
Genome Evolution in Diploid and Polyploid Cotton
10/1/06
9/30/07
Wendel, Jonathan Iowa State University
$816,319
Comparative Resequencing in the Pinaceae
11/1/06
10/31/08
Neale, David University of California-Davis
$505,122
Comparative Sequencing of Plant Small RNAs
1/1/07
12/31/08
Meyers, Blake University of Delaware
$1,134,253
Toward Unraveling the Morphological Plasticity and Genome Redundancy of Brassica oleracea
1/1/07
12/31/08
Pires, Joseph University of Missouri-Columbia
$1,544,477
Gaining Insight into the Organization and Evolution of Genomes Through Wheat - Brachypodium - Rice Comparative Analysis
10/1/06
9/30/07
Devos, Katrien University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
$888,819
Comparative cDNA Sequencing in Radish (Raphanus), a Crop, Weed, and Model System in Ecology and Evolution
12/1/06
11/30/07
Conner, Jeffrey Michigan State University
$527,705
The Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project
1/1/07
12/31/07
dePamphilis, Claude Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
$1,676,480
The Evolutionary Genomics of Invasive Weedy Rice
10/1/06
9/30/07
Olsen, Kenneth Washington University
$742,927