Sclerotinia Initiative Funded Projects - 2004

1) Innovative methods to identify resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Berlin Nelson – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
$21,540

2) Resistance improvement of bean through multi-site screening and pathogen characterization.

James Steadman – PI
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
$45,000

3) Minimizing Sclerotinia on canola, pea, sunflower, chickpeas, and lentils using crop sequence and biological control.

Joe Krupinsky – PI
USDA-ARS, Mandan, ND
$65,000

4) Introgressing white mold resistance from the secondary gene pool of common bean.

Shree Singh – PI
Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID
$40,000

5) Multi-action pesticide and resistance management of white mold in dry bean.

Howard Schwartz – PI
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO
$28,000

6) Towards marker-assisted breeding for white mold resistance in common bean.

Phil Miklas – PI
USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA
$23,000

7) Identify and introgress molecular markers for white mold resistance in dry bean.

Phil Miklas – PI
USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA
$40,000

8) Mapping and transfer of Sclerotinia resistance from scarlet runner to common bean.

James Myers – PI
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
$40,000

9) Quantitative trait loci for resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in PI391589A.

Anne Dorrance – PI
Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH
$16,079

10) Genetics and mapping of resistance to Sclerotinia white mold in lentil.

Fred Muehlbauer – PI
USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA
$76,384

11) Sources of resistance to white mold in the grain legume core collections.

Weidong Chen – PI
USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA
$35,975

12) Validation and introgression of white mold resistance from Andean into middle American germplasm.

Mark Brick – PI
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO
$28,000

13) Development of soybean varieties or germplasm resistant to Sclerotinia stem rot.

Dechun Wang – PI
Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI
$29,209

14) Improving white mold resistance by transforming dry bean with the Germin oxalate oxidase gene.

James Kelly – PI
Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI
$27,000

15) Genetic basis of oxalate sensitivity in relationship to Sclerotinia diseases.

Henrik Stotz – PI
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
$54,855

16) Development of PCR-based molecular markers for resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot in soybean.

Glen Hartman – PI
USDA-ARS, Urbana, IL
$55,000

17) Soybean genome response to Sclerotinia and oxalate, its major virulence factor.

Steven Clough – PI
USDA-ARS, Urbana, IL
$64,500

18) Sequencing of expressed sequence tags of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Pisum sativum.

Nik Grunwald – PI
USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA
$60,544

19) Population structure of the white mold pathogen on pea and lentil in the US.

Nik Grunwald – PI
USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA
$64,484

20) Influence of crop rotation and a cover crop on Sclerotinia in canola.

Paul Porter – PI
Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
$5,500

21) Application of genomic technology to the analysis of gene expression in Sclerotinia.

Jeffrey Rollins – PI
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
$70,800

22) Fungicides and application timings for Sclerotinia disease control on field pea.

Scott Halley – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Langdon, ND
$16,000

23) Evaluation of canola cultivars for resistance to Sclerotinia.

Bob Henson – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Carrington, ND
$18,000

24) Sunflower head rot screening nursery.

Bob Henson – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Carrington, ND
$25,597

25) Evaluation of Brassica napus accessions for resistance to Sclerotinia under mist-irrigation.

Carl Bradley – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
$8,000

26) Validation of a white mold forecasting system for dry beans and canola in North Dakota and Minnesota.

Luis del Rio – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
$45,000

27) A novel approach to develop elite, Sclerotinia resistant canola cultivars.

D. V. Phillips – PI
Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
$40,000

28) Sclerotinia resistance and management strategies among susceptible South Dakota crops.

Marty Draper – PI
South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD
$26,403

29) Gene expression changes in Brassica napus challenged by Sclerotinia.

Tom Osborn – PI
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$10,500

30) Impact of preceding crops on incidence and severity of disease in canola.

Brian Jenks – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Minot, ND
$11,000

31) Epidemiology and control of Sclerotinia headrot in wild sunflower species.

Khalid Rashid – co-PI
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Morden, Manitoba & Gerald Seiler – co-PI USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND
$15,000

32) Development of sunflower germplasm with Sclerotinia head rot and stalk rot resistance.

Tom Gulya – PI
USDA-ARS, Fargo, ND
$75,284

33) Management of Sclerotinia on canola in the northern United States.

Jack Rasmussen – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
$65,150

34) Tech Transfer

Ken Grafton – PI
North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
$28,000