Grant Support
Below is a list of active grants within the Department.
| Faculty | Funding Agency | Grant Title |
| James R. Alfano | North Central Soybean Research Program | Enhancing Disease Resistance in Soybean Through the Tools of Biotechnology |
| James R. Alfano | USDA-CSREES | Dissecting the function of HrpJ and HrpK1 - two type III secreted proteins that are required for the injection of effectors into plant cells |
| James R. Alfano | National Science Foundation | Secretion Signals and Type III Chaperones in the Pseudomonas Syringae Type III Secretion System |
| James R. Alfano | National Institutes of Health NIAID | Suppression of innate immunity by ADP ribosyltransferase type III effectors |
| Loren Giesler | Nebraska Soybean Board | NU Mobile Plant Diagnostic Lab |
| Loren Giesler | North Central Soybean Research Program | Improving management of soybean cyst nematode through extension demonstration and outreach |
| Loren Giesler | Nebraska Soybean Board | Soybean Rust Phone Hot-Line |
| Loren Giesler | North Central Soybean Research Program | Sentinel Plots to Monitor the Spread of Asian Soybean Rust in the U.S. Soybean Production |
| Steven Harris | National Science Foundation | Autophagy in Fungal Hyphae – Functional Genomic and Mechanical Strength Studies |
| Steven Harris | National Science Foundation | An extensible semantic bridge between biodiversity and genomics |
| Steven Harris | Nebraska Research Initiative | Functional and chemical characterization of a novel broad spectrum antimycotic from Lysobacter enzymogenes |
| Robert Harveson | USDA-CSREES | Continued development of the IPM PIPE Risk Management Tool |
| Robert Harveson | Western Sugar Coop | Implementing the cercospora leaf spot alert system |
| Tamra A. Jackson | USDA-CSREES | Improved monitoring techniques and economic injury levels for western bean cut worm on field corn |
| Tamra A. Jackson | Nebraska Soybean Board | Improving soybean cyst nematode awareness and management |
| Tamra A. Jackson | USDA Sclerotinia Initiative | Sclerotinia resistance enhanced by accumulation of QTL and transgenic approaches |
| Amit Mitra | National Science Foundation | Method of direct repeat-induced gene silencing |
| Amit Mitra | Nebraska Soybean Board | Virus Resistance in Transgenic Soybean |
| Amit Mitra | USDA-NRI | Functional map of tomato genome |
| Thomas O. Powers | National Science Foundation | Nematodes of the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica: Linking morphology and MOTUs |
| Thomas O. Powers | NRI | Metabolomics core facility for carbohydrate catalysis in the generation of ethanol |
| James R. Steadman | USDA | Sclerotinia Resistance Enhanced by Accumulation of QTL and Transgenic Approaches |
| James R. Steadman | USDA – ARS | Resistance Improvement of bean Through Multi-Site Screening and Pathogen Characterization |
| James L. Van Etten | National Institute of Health | DNA Duplication and Gene Expression of Chlorella Viruses |
| James L. Van Etten | National Institute of Health | Engineering DNA Nickering Endonucleases |
| James L. Van Etten | Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research | Enzymes for enhancing ethanol production from lignocellulose |
| Anne K. Vidaver | USDA | Agrisecurity: A Master’s Degree Program |
| Anne K. Vidaver | Anna H. Elliott Fund | Investigation into the reemergence of Goss's wilt of corn in western Nebraska |
| Stephen N. Wegulo | Nebraska Wheat Board | Mitigating Winter Wheat Losses |
| Stephen N. Wegulo | National Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative | To Enhance Variety Development of Scab Resistant Varieties |
| Gary Y. Yuen | USDA – ARS | Biological and cultural control of fusarium head blight |
| Gary Y. Yuen | USDA – ARS | Enhancing biological strategies to control fusarium head blight |
| Gary Y. Yuen | Nebraska Research Initiative | Functional and chemical characterization of a novel broad spectrum antimycotic from lysobacter enzymogenes |
