Projects are sorted by those that are newly funded versus those receiving continued funding, then by department and then alphabetical by principal investigator.
Newly Funded Projects
Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Grower decision support tool for conversion to a high-efficiency tart cherry orchard system
Principle investigator: Thornsbury, Suzanne
The impacts of expanding Chinese production on Michigan’s blueberry sector
Principle investigator:
Thornsbury, Suzanne
MSU Extension Agriculture and Agribusiness Institute
Evaluation of binary mixtures of alfalfa and grass and their responses to supplemental nitrogen fertilization
Principle investigator:
Min, Doo-Hong
Combining strip tillage and dual cover crops to increase profitability
Principle investigator:
Mutch, Dale
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Managing and using high-yielding corn residue in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Harrigan, Tim
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Transcriptome analysis of resistant and susceptible potato varieties to common scab
Principle investigator:
Douches, David
Management strategies to alleviate winterkill on golf courses
Principle investigator:
Frank, Kevin
Pre-harvest sprouting resistance in elite wheat lines adapted to Michigan
Principle investigator:
Lewis, Janet
Fate of weed seeds when plants are terminated prior to maturity
Principle investigator:
Renner, Karen
Cover crop susceptibility to herbicides
Principle investigator:
Sprague, Christy
Improving the ecological efficiency of Michigan sugarbeet production
Principle investigator:
Steinke, Kurt
Develop soybean germplasm with resistance to multiple biotypes of aphids and Japanese beetles
Principle investigator:
Wang, Dechun
Department of Entomology
Development and delivery of biologically based pest management for the apple flea weevil
Principle investigator:
Grieshop, Matthew
Critical invasive pests of Michigan tree fruit
Principle investigator:
Gut, Larry
Pesticide nosema interactions across developmental states of honey bees
Principle investigator:
Huang, Zachary
Responding to spotted wing Drosophila‘s arrival in Michigan small fruit crops
Principle investigator:
Isaacs, Rufus
Managing gall wasp in Michigan blueberries
Principle investigator:
Isaacs, Rufus
Advancing native plants to support agriculture and the environment
Principle investigator:
Landis, Douglas
Insecticide resistance management of the greenhouse pest: western flower thrips
Principle investigator:
Mota-Sanchez, David
Pest management technical information (updates) and state and federal committee service
Principle investigator:
Whalon, Mark
Trunk injection technology for disease and insect control in tree fruits
Principle investigator:
Wise, John
Department of Forestry
Development and field evaluation of true firs genetic material for Michigan Christmas tree production
Principle investigator:
Nzoukou, Pascal
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
MSU conducted and coordinated industry wheat evaluations for wheat quality testing of advanced lines
Principle investigator:
Ng, Perry
MSU Extension Greening Michigan Institute
Teaching, researching and demonstrating encapsulated soil life techniques at Kellogg Biological Station
Principle investigator:
Herbert, Jane
Department of Horticulture
Changing sensitivity of sugarbeet roots to decay throughout the storage campaign: germplasm evaluation and symptom amelloration
Principle investigator:
Beaudry, Randolph
Caught you looking! What captures consumers attention when they buy ornamental and food producing plants
Principle investigator:
Behe, Bridget
A comprehensive approach to coning in Frasier fir Christmas trees
Principle investigator:
Cregg, Bert
Water management for container nurseries to improve irrigation efficiency and reduce runoff and off site agrichemical movement
Principle investigator:
Fernandez, R. Thomas
Impact and social acceptance of selected sustainable practices in ornamental crop production systems
Principle investigator:
Fernandez, R. Thomas
Reducing the cost and CO2 emissions of fruit processing in Michigan
through the use of discarded fruit trees as a source of heat and
electricity
Principle investigator:
Keathley, Daniel
Nematode assemblage analyses of Michigan soil groups across ecosystems
and temperature zones to develop a proof of concept for an NSP proposal
Principle investigator:
Melakeberhan, Haddish
Grower initiated project to enhance the profitability of cucumber and tomato production with low tunnels
Principle investigator:
Ngouajio, Mathieu
Control of berry maturation to improve total fruit antioxidant in Concord vines
Principle investigator:
Sabbatini, Paolo
Overcoming biennial bearing in tree fruits
Principle investigator:
VanNocker, Steve
Kellogg Biological Station
A new crop for a variable climate: intermediate wheatgrass biology and forage potential
Principle investigator:
Culman, Steve
Department of Plant Biology
Development of genetic resources for improvement of American ginseng
Principle investigator:
Buell, Robin
Genome resources for Venturia inaequalis
Principle investigator:
Trail, Francis
Department of Plant Pathology
Identification of oomycete and fungal species responsible for stand loss in soybean and corn
Principle investigator:
Chilvers, Martin
In plant analysis of resistance and susceptibility: the identification
of missing responses in the cucumber downy mildew interaction
Principle investigator:
Day, Brad
Analyzing the impact to Colorado blue spruce quality in Michigan
landscapes, nurseries and Christmas tree industry from Stigminia and Rhizosphaera needlecasts
Principle investigator:
Fulbright, Dennis
New Colletotrichum diseases of Michigan onion and celery
Principle investigator:
Hausbeck, Mary
Development of a spectral index to facilitate the efficient scouting of Phytophthora capsici in squash
Principle investigator:
Hausbeck, Mary
Managing potato and tomato late blight epidemics through the use of weather based IPM systems to predict overwinter survival
Principle investigator:
Kirk, William
Initiation of immediate and long-term mgmt strategies for invasive genotypes of Phytophthora infestans on potato foliage and tubers
Principle investigator:
Kirk, William
Identification of pathogens responsible for potato dry rot and other
skin-blemish diseases in commercial potato production and sugarbeet
root rot diseases and their sensitivity fungicides
Principle investigator:
Kirk, William
Inheritance and mapping of resistance to Anthracnose fruit rot in highbush blueberries for marker assisted selection
Principle investigator:
Schilder, Annemiek
Determining the potential of ground floor management to reduce disease
pressure in Michigan vineyards/A bio-rational approach to management of
downy mildew in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Schilder, Annemiek
Formation of a multi-university plant enterobacterial pathogen group: role of biofilms in colonization and pathogenesis
Principle investigator:
Sundin, George
Development of an alternative granular pesticide application technology and prototype applicator for golf and athletic turfgrass
Principle investigator:
Vargas, Joseph
Projects Receiving Continued Funding
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Development of polar plantations for treatment of food processing wastewaters
Principle investigator:
Reinhold, Dawn
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Investigation of potato plant resistance mechanisms to Colorado potato beetles and development of resistant varieties
Principle investigator:
Douches, David
New tools for identifying resistance to potato common scabs and improving disease management
Principle investigator:
Douches, David
Improving biological nitrogen fixation in dry beans for Michigan
Principle investigator:
Kelly, James
Optimizing row width and plant populations to improve weed management and yield in Michigan dry bean production systems
Principle investigator:
Sprague, Christy
Soil moisture depletion patterns, water use, and nutrient fate on creeping bentgrass for sustainable golf course putting greens
Principle investigator:
Steinke, Kurt
Establishment of perennial warm season grasses for biofuels
Principle investigator:
Thelen, Kurt
Department of Entomology
Western bean cutworm biology, life history, and management under Great Lakes conditions
Principle investigator:
DiFonzo, Christina
Development and implementation of mating disruption for environmental
sound management of seslid borer pests in cherry and apple orchards
Principle investigator:
Grieshop, Matthew
Development and delivery of an effective organic pest management tactic
for Michigan organic apples using entomophagous nematodes
Principle investigator:
Grieshop, Matthew
Development and delivery of sustainable, biologically-based insect pest management for Michigan greenhouses
Principle investigator:
Grieshop, Matthew
Evaluating the importance of visual cues for fruit pest attraction to pheromone dispensers and attract and kill devices
Principle investigator:
Grieshop, Matthew
Effect of endoparasites, Nosema spp., on honey bee behavior and physiology
Principle investigator:
Huang, Zachary
Optimizing management of grape berry moth with risk assessment, pest phenology, and sustainable controls
Principle investigator:
Isaacs, Rufus
Increasing sustainability for the Michigan juice grape industry through
the development and validation of thresholds for key vineyard insect
pests and diseases
Principle investigator:
Jenkins, Paul
Plant defense priming: can plant growth regulators or fertilization
enhance resistance of native or Asian ash species to emerald ash borer?
Principle investigator:
McCullough, Deborah
Improvements to moth mating disruption by insights from comparative studies of oriental fruit moth versus codling moth
Principle investigator:
Miller, James
A new approach to grub tolerance for growing healthy lawns without insecticides
Principle investigator:
Smitley, David
Development and delivery of a sustainable asparagus miner management program in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Szendrei, Zsofia
Sustainable management solutions for control of aster yellows phytoplasma and associated leafhopper vector in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Szendrei, Zsofia
Greening Michigan
Investigating hop (Humulus lupulus) varieties for Michigan production
Principle investigator:
Sirrine, Robert
Department of Horticulture
Establishment of an expanded interdisciplinary enology research and development program at MSU
Principle investigator:
Berglund, Kris
Strip-tillage and planting density strategies for improving carrot quality and soil health
Principle investigator:
Brainard, Daniel
Combining strip-tillage and cover-cropping for improved insect and weed management in Michigan vegetable crops
Principle investigator:
Brainard, Daniel
Nursery establishment and physiology of difficult to transplant ash alternative species
Principle investigator:
Cregg, Burt
Accelerating blueberry plant establishment
Principle investigator:
Hanson, Eric
Cover crop benefits and options for celery and onion rotation systems on muck soils
Principle investigator:
Ngouajio, Mathieu
Quantifying carbon sequestration potential in landscape systems
Principle investigator:
Rowe, Brad
Developing LED photoperiodic lighting for specialty crop production (SCRI match)
Principle investigator:
Runkle, Erik
Scheduling bedding plants for energy efficient greenhouse production
Principle investigator:
Runkle, Erik
Evaluation of strategies to achieve sustainable production of Concord grapes in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Sabbatini, Paolo
Quantifying carbon sequestration in woody and herbaceous nursery production systems
Principle investigator:
Schutski, Robert
The development of vineyard models for the maximum production of juice
grapes with acceptable quality under Michigan growing conditions
Principle investigator:
Zabadal, Thomas
Kellogg Biological Station
Enhancing cover crop selection and performance for field crop and vegetable farmers in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Mutch, Dale
MSU Extension Director’s Office
Michigan Wheat Initiative
Principle investigators:
Rodgers, Michelle and Martin Nagelkirk
MSU Extension North Region
Investigating horticultural methods for overcoming Armillaria spp. on cherry orchard sites
Principle investigator:
Lizotte, Erin
Department of Plant Pathology
Soybean sudden death syndrome: assessment of Fusarioum virguliforme
distribution, pathogenicity, genetic diversity and fungicide resistance
in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Chilvers, Martin
Optimizing the conditions and developing new tools for controlling soybean white mold using cultural and biological means
Principle investigator:
Hao, Jianjun
Diversity and management of Streptomyces species that cause scab on potato and sugar beets in Michigan
Principle investigator:
Hao, Jianjun
Developing a program of accurate detection and enhanced management of cucurbit downy mildew
Principle investigator:
Hausbeck, Mary
Validation of disease prediction models for Anthracnose fruit rot and mummy berry in blueberries
Principle investigator:
Schilder, Annemiek
