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These links are a subset of Agronomic Links Around
the Globe, a collection of agronomic links organized by international,
national and state
categories, and maintained by R.L.
(Bob) Nielsen, Dept. of Agronomy,
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN 47907-2054. Comments can be emailed to rnielsen@purdue.edu.
Note: No endorsement nor promotion
of the linked sites is intended by the author or Purdue University.
- Center for Soybean Tissue Culture and Genetic
Engineering
- The United Soybean Board has established this Center to bring together
the expertise of three principal investigators with extensive backgrounds
in soybean regeneration and genetic engineering, so that they may pool
their expertise to develop and refine one or more complete genetic engineering
systems for soybean, with the final goal that genetic engineering can
become routine and affordable for use in soybean improvement.
- National Corn Genome Initiative
- The goal of the National Corn Genome Initiative is to improve
profitability and sustainability in the corn industry. Using genomic
technology, the genetic blueprint and function of the estimated 40,000
genes of corn will be determined. This is an applied, directed research
program conducted by geneticists and molecular biologists in universities
and private sector research laboratories. With this information, solutions
to longstanding constraints in the corn industry (agronomic performance,
damage by second generation European corn borer and other stalk borers,
corn rootworm, and grain quality at harvest and in storage) will be
possible.
- National Soybean Research Laboratory (NSRL)
- The NSRL is taking the lead in applying innovative approaches to meeting
rapidly changing research and development needs in the soybean industry.
Its primary mission is to facilitate proactive programs that can provide
effective responses to emerging market conditions, help insure the health
and well-being of consumers, and increase profitability in the soybean
industry. The NSRL is centrally positioned in the heart of the major
soybean production area of the world. Its location at the campus of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides ready access
to important assets, such as the Department of Agriculture's national
soybean germplasm collection and a major laboratory dedicated to research
in plant and animal biotechnology.
- North Central Soybean Cyst Nematode Project
- The North Central Soybean Cyst Nematode Project is a regional
effort initiated in 1993 to determine the effects of susceptible and
resistant soybean varieties and nonhost crops on populaton densities
of soybean cyst nematode (SCN), to assess yield loss due to SCN, and
to increase awareness of the nematode and its management among growers
in the North Central Region of the US. Cooperating states include Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
- Maize Sequence Analysis Project
- is a joint effort between the University of Minnesota and the Maize
cDNA Sequencing Project at the University of Arizona. To date, over
100 sequences from corn (maize) have been processed with these tools.
- Multidimensional Microscopies and Maize
Structure
- State University of New York, Buffalo.
- Plantstress.com
- "The purpose of this web site is to serve as a brokerage of information,
a meeting place, a consultation facility and a source for professional
update on the most important issues of plant environmental stress. While
the site is dynamic and constantly updated it also offers basic educational
materials to newcomers into this area who wish to use the site for learning.
The most important goal of this web site is to promote interaction among
those interested in solving the problem of plants under stress in agriculture,
be it scientists, extension specialists, business people, administrators,
policy makers or farmers."
- Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
- The mission of the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory is to
increase the knowledge and application the systematics of fungi and
vascular plants essential to solving problems in sustainable and conventional
agriculture.
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