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Fiscal Year 2006 Awards Genome-Enabled Plant Research (GEPR) Translational Research From Model Systems(TRMS) Tools and Resources for Plant Genome Research(TRPGR)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0606873	Benfey, Philip	Duke University	Genomic Approaches to Identify Genes for Root System Architecture Traits	$749,862	2
0606909	Brendel, Volker	Iowa State University University of South Dakota*	Cyberinfrastructure for (Comparative) Plant Genome Research Through PlantGDB	$3,469,595	4
0604907	Buell, C. Robin	Institute for Genomic Research Washington State University*	Generation of Potato Sequence and Annotation Resources	$3,021,461	3
0606666	Cohen, Jerry D.	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	Global Measurement of Turnover of Plant Proteins	$621,222	2
0605059	Collmer, Alan	Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute*	Exploiting Tomato Genomics Resources to Investigate Basal Plant Defenses Against Pathogens	$2,500,000	4
0605251	Cook, Douglas R.	University of California-Davis	Comparative Genomics of Legume Disease Resistance Gene Homologs	$4,959,892	4
0605017	Dean, Ralph A.	North Carolina State University Texas A&M Research Foundation* University of Arkansas*	A High-Throughput Protoplast System for Rice Functional Genomics and Proteomics: Protein-Protein Interactions at the Host-Pathogen Interface	$2,345,271	3
0605033	Dixon, Richard	Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	A Genomics Approach to the Synthesis and Secretion of Bioactive Plant Natural Proteins	$1,406,599	3
0604755	Fennell, Anne	South Dakota State University University of Nevada-Reno* Boston University* Iowa State University*	Functional Genomics of Bud Endodormancy Induction in Grapevines (Vitis)	$3,003,610	4
0604923	Hake, Sarah	University of California-Berkeley Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* University of Missouri-Saint Louis* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* University of California-San Diego*	Genetic Mechanisms Regulating Inflorescence Architecture in Maize and Other Cereals	$5,921,712	5
0603927	Jiang, Jiming	University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Arizona* Purdue University*	Comparative Genomics of a Rice Centromere	$3,683,377	5
0604336	Last, Robert L.	Michigan State University University of Arizona* University of Michigan*	Building and Operating a Chemical Factory in Solanum Species	$3,696,295	3
0605736	McClung, C. Robertson	Dartmouth College University of Wisconsin-Madison* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Genetic Analysis of Natural Variation in the Control of Flowering Timing and Inflorescence Architecture in Brassica rapa	$3,079,595	4
0608405	McCombie, W. Richard	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of Delaware*	Characterization of Rice Genomes and Transcriptomes Using Novel Sequencing Technologies	$3,021,987	3
0606461	McCouch, Susan R.	Cornell University University of Arizona* Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Exploring the Genetic Basis of Transgressive Variation in Rice	$5,481,557	4
0605240	Mockler, Todd C.	Oregon State University The Salk Institute for Biological Studies* The Scripps Research Institute*	Comparative Genomic Analysis of Diurnal and Circadian Gene Expression Regulation	$1,425,485	3
0605016	Okita, Thomas W.	Washington State University	An Integrated Genomic, Proteomic and Cytological Approach to Understand the Function of Cytoplasmic Localized, Cytoskeletal-Associated RNA-Binding Proteins in Rice	$2,185,775	5
0606595	Rose, Jocelyn K.	Cornell University	Characterization of the Tomato Secretome Using Integrated Functional and Computational Strategies	$3,627,035	5
0605135	Sederoff, Ronald	North Carolina State University Clemson University* American Chestnut Foundation*	Genomic Tool Development for the Fagaceae	$2,732,025	4
0606607	Settles, A. Mark	University of Florida	Dosage Dependent Genes Affecting Seed Composition and Weight	$1,227,302	4
0604439	Thelen, Jay J.	University of Missouri-Columbia	Identification and Absolute Quantitation of Protein Phosphorylation Networks in Oilseeds	$1,999,479	5
0604765	Weil, Clifford F.	Purdue University	The Maize TILLING Project: Reverse Genetics of Maize Point Mutatations	$1,617,351	2
0607123	Wessler, Susan R.	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Michigan State University* Purdue University*	Maize Transposable Elements: Discovery, Description and Functional Characterization	$4,108,008	5
0604966	Young, Nevin D.	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Oklahoma* Institute for Genomic Research*	Completing the Sequence of Medicago truncatula Gene-Rich Euchromatin	$6,590,671	2

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Maize Genome Sequencing Project (NSF/DOE/USDA Joint Program)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0527192	Wilson, Richard	Washington University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* Iowa State University* University of Arizona*	Sequencing the Maize Genome	$29,450,001	3

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Fiscal Year 2005 Awards Virtual Center Awards in Plant Genome Research (VCA-PGR) Individual Small Group Awards in Plant Genome Research (ISGA-PGR)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0501758	Barbazuk, W. Brad	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Washington University*	Ab Initio Gene Finding in Maize	$622,027	2
0501814	Bennetzen, Jeffrey	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Purdue University*	Characterizing the Wheat Genome by Random Sample Sequencing	$1,471,641	3
0501713	Brutnell, Thomas	Boyce Thompson Institute Iowa State University*	A Two Component Activator/Discussion Platform for Reverse and Forward Genetic Analysis in Maize	$3,779,502	5
0501712 0733857^	Comai, Luca	University of California-Davis Purdue University* University of Puget Sound* Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* Texas A&M Research Foundation* California Polytechnic State University* University of Missouri-Columbia*	Functional Genomics of Plant Polyploids	$7,766,348	5
0501914	Galbraith, David	University of Arizona	Self-Assembling Autofluorescent Protein Microarrays, A Universal Resource for the Plant Research Community	$1,674,010	5
0501720	Goldberg, Robert	University of California-Los Angeles University of California-Davis* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Genes Required to Make a Soybean Seed	$7,571,004	5
0501862	Jackson, David	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institute for Genomic Research* University of Wyoming*	Characterizing Sub-Cellular Compartments in Maize Using Fluorescent Protein Tagged Lines	$4,950,172	5
0501877	Jackson, Scott	Purdue University Iowa State University* National Center for Genome Resources* University of Arizona* University of Missouri-Columbia*	SoyMap: An Integrated Soybean Genome Map	$4,496,047	4
0501824	Jorgensen, Richard	University of Arizona University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc*	Functional Genomics by Sense-RNAi: A Forward Genetic Approach for Cell-Type-Targeted Mutagenesis and for Polyploids	$1,641,880	3
0501778	Klee, Harry	University of Florida Boyce Thompson Institute* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University*	Functional Genomic Analysis of Fruit Flavor and Nutrition Pathways	$2,019,969	4
0501763	Langley, Charles	University of California-Davis North Carolina State University* Texas A&M Research Foundation* University of Florida*	Association Genetics of Natural Genetic Variation and Complex Traits in Pine	$5,902,886	4
0501890	Luthe, Dawn	Mississippi State University Pennsylvania State University* University of Alabama at Birmingham*	Functional Genomics of Woody Perennial Flowering	$1,753,316	3
0501700	Moose, Stephen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cornell University*	Gene Discovery for Maize Responses to Nitrogen	$2,606,096	5
0501818	Schwartz, David	University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Southern California*	A Genome-Wide Optical Map for Maize	$983,908	2
0421756	Tsai, Chung-Jui	Michigan Technological University	A Functional Genomics Approach to Investigate Regulation of Phenolic Glycoside Metabolism in Populus	$2,114,095	4
0501760	Vance, Vickii	University of South Carolina Research Foundation University of South Carolina at Columbia* University of California-Davis*	Small RNAs in Rice and Maize	$1,203,620	3
0501678	Voytas, Daniel	Iowa State University	A Homologous Recombination System for Plants Based on Zinc Finger Nucleases	$1,931,010	4
0500461	Wise, Roger	Iowa State University	Functional Genomics of Plant Disease Defense Pathways	$2,093,192	4
0501857	Yu, Yeisoo	University of Arizona Stanford University*	Maize Full-Length cDNA Project	$4,658,148	3

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Fiscal Year 2004 Awards Virtual Center Awards in Plant Genome Research (VCA-PGR) Individual Small Group Awards in Plant Genome Research (ISGA-PGR)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0421799	Barkan, Alice	University of Oregon Eugene Cornell University*	Plant RNA Binding Proteins: Tools for Functional Genomics and Application to Chloroplast Biogenesis	$4,167,531	5
0423898	Birchler, James	University of Missouri-Columbia	Somatic Karyotype Analysis of the Maize Genome	$2,257,237	5
0421815 0624077^	Chen, Z. Jeffrey	University of Texas at Austin University of New Orleans* Texas A&M Research Foundation* Mississippi State University*	Genetic and Functional Genomic Analysis of Early Events in Cotton Fiber Development	$2,541,123	5
0421619	Cone, Karen	University of Missouri-Columbia University of Arizona* University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* University of Wisconsin-Madison* Washington University*	Functional Genomics of Maize Chromatin	$6,644,647	5
0421604	Coruzzi, Gloria	New York University American Museum of Natural History* Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* New York Botanical Garden*	Genomics of Comparative Seed Evolution	$4,994,588	5
0421671	Dawe, R. Kelly	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc University of Hawaii* University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Functional Genomics of Maize Centromeres	$5,602,932	5
0421675	Deng, Xing-Wang	Yale University University of California-Davis*	Virtual Center for Analysis of Rice Genome Transcription	$2,409,693	3
0321494	Dooner, Hugo	Rutgers University New Brunswick	A Set of Transgenic Maize Lines for Localized Mutagenesis Based on the Ac-Ds Transposon System	$1,035,558	4
0421676	Gantt, James	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Boyce Thompson Institute*	Use of Interfering RNAs to Identify Gene Function in Medicago truncatula	$2,098,510	4
0421683	Hahn, Michael	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	A Monoclonal Antibody Toolkit for Functional Genomics of Plant Cell Walls	$3,876,004	4
0321450 0436450^	Harper, Jeffrey	University of Nevada Reno	Prediction and Validation of Phospho-Regulatory Sites in Crop Plant Proteomes	$691,501	2
0419435	Kochian, Leon	Boyce Thompson Institute Cornell University*	Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Aluminum Tolerance in Maize	$933,490	5
0420394	McNellis, Timothy	Pennsylvania State University	Rootstock-Dependent Gene Expression in Apple Tree Scions	$2,269,246	5
0421803 0553417^	Ming, Ray	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Comparative Genomics of Papaya Chromosomes	$2,896,907	4
0421679	Napoli, Carolyn	University of Arizona	ChromDB: Integrating Information about Plant Chromatin Proteins and Complexes	$1,596,540	4
0421717	Peterson, Daniel	Mississippi State University Clemson University* Texas Agricultural Experiment Station*	Accelerating Pine Genomics Through Development and Utilization of Molecular and Cytogenetic Resources	$1,613,915	3
0421630	Rieseberg, Loren	Indiana University Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc* University of California-Davis* University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* University of Massachusetts Boston*	Comparative Genomics of the Compositae	$5,484,985	3
0421620	Stacey, Gary	University of Missouri-Columbia Donald Danforth Plant Science Center* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*	Functional Genomics of Root Hair Infection	$2,500,005	5
0321685	Stein, Lincoln	Cold Spring Harbor University Cornell University*	Gramene: A Platform for Comparative Cereal Genomics	$5,500,235	4
0421634	Tanksley, Steven	Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute* Colorado State University*	Sequence and Annotation of the Euchromatin of Tomato	$4,210,323	3
0421651	Thompson, William	North Carolina State University Clemson University* Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory*	Global Analysis of Functional Units in Plant Chromosomes: DNA Replication, Domain Structure and Transcription	$5,133,285	5
0421743	Tuskan, Gerald	University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture University of California-Berkeley* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	The Populus Genome Portal	$1,384,814	2

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Fiscal Year 2003 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics Young Investigator Awards in Plant Genome Research (YIA-PGR)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0321639	Bass, Henry	Florida State University	Cytogenic Map of Maize	$1,548,982	4
0321600	Brendel, Volker	Iowa State University University of South Dakota*	PlantGDB - Plant Genome Database and Analysis Tools	$978,683	2
0321538	Buell, C. Robin	Institute for Genomic Research	An Annotation Resrouce for the Rice Genome	$4,876,855	4
0332411	Burke, John	Vanderbilt University	YIA-PGR: Identification of the Targets of Selection During Sunflower Domestication	$1,111,827	5
0321663	Chandler, Vicki	University of Arizona Institute for Genomic Research* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Microarray Resources for Maize Research	$3,658,458	3
0321756	Close, Timothy	University of California-Riverside University of California-Davis*	Coupling Expressed Sequences and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Resources to Access the Barley Genome	$2,433,127	4
0321467	Doebley, John	University of Wisconsin-Madison Cornell University* University of California-Irvine* North Carolina State University* Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* University of Missouri-Columbia*	Molecular and Functional Diversity in the Maize Genome	$10,261,784	5
0320683	Dooner, Hugo	Rutgers University New Brunswick University of California-Irvine*	A Comparative Genomics Investigation of Unprecedented Haplotype Variability in Maize	$973,067	4
0321757	Dvorak, Jan	University of California-Davis Montana State University* Kansas State University* University of California-Riverside* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Haplotype Polymorphism in the Polyploid Wheats and their Diploid Ancestors	$5,615,748	3
0321726	Freeling, Michael	University of California-Berkeley	Epigenetic Regulation of the Mutator System of Transposons	$986,783	5
0321510	Henikoff, Steven	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center University of Washington* Purdue University*	Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes (TILLING) for Plant Functional Genomics	$2,570,388	3
0321664	Innes, Roger	Indiana University University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* Cornell University* Virginia Museum of Natural History* Virginia Polytechnic and State University* University of Oklahoma Norman Campus* Wonderlab Museum of Science, Health and Technology*	Comparative Analysis of Legume Genome Evolution	$2,581,746	3
0321462	Kianian, Shahryar	North Dakota State University Oregon State University* University of Arizona* Kansas State University* University of California-Davis*	Development of Diploid Wheat (Triticum monococcum) Deletion Lines for Reverse Genetics	$1,808,502	2
0321578	Klein, Patricia	Texas A&M Research Foundation	Map-Based Dissection of Sorghum Drought Tolerance Gene Networks	$1,964,299	4
0321701	Korban, Schuyler	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cornell University* Purdue University* Washington University*	Apple Functional Genomics	$1,659,708	2
0320544	Main, Doreen Abbott, Albert^	Clemson University	The Prunus Genome Database: A Model For Rosaceae	$646,677	3
0321683	McCombie, W. Richard	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of Arizona*	Finishing the Rice Genome	$4,202,799	3
0321437	Meyers, Blake	University of Delaware Ohio State University Research Foundation*	Deep Transcription Profiling of Rice Using Signature Sequencing	$4,195,915	4
0325821	Nelson, Timothy	Yale University	Analysis of Rice Cellular Expression Profiles	$4,492,329	4
0319553	Purugganan, Michael Gibson, Gregory^	North Carolina State University Cornell University*	Evolutionary Genomics of Rice	$2,573,939	3
0313887	Ronald, Pamela	University of California-Davis Institute for Genomic Research* Iowa State University*	A Rice Oligonucleotide Array	$4,367,659	3
0321595 0638770^	Scanlon, Michael	Cornell University Truman State University* Iowa State University* Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory*	Functional Analysis of Genes Involved in Meristem Organization and Leaf Initiation	$3,939,129	4
0321711	Schnable, Patrick	Iowa State University Truman State University*	High-Density Genetic Map of Maize Transcripts	$3,691,269	3
0321565	Sheridan, William	University of North Dakota	Global Analysis of the Maize Genome: Relating Genes and DNA Sequence to Chromosome Regions	$300,000	3
0321690	Shintani, David	University of Nevada Reno	The Functional Identification of Plant Rubber Biosynthetic Genes	$1,992,203	4
0321724	Soderlund, Carol	University of Arizona Purdue University*	Techniques for Efficient Finishing and Physical Linkage of Gene Enriched Shotgun Sequences	$1,414,729	2
0321666	Stein, Lincoln	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cornell University* University of Missouri-Saint Louis*	The Plant Ontology Consortium	$1,672,411	3
0332418	Thelen, Jay	University of Missouri-Columbia	YIA-PGR: Proteomics of Seed-Filling in Oil Seeds	$1,074,667	5
0333074	Ware, Doreen	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	YIA-PGR: Genomics of Rice, Sorghum and Maize	$1,295,238	5
0321678	Wing, Rod	University of Arizona Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* Purdue University*	Oryza Map Alignment Project	$9,743,546	4
0321460	Young, Nevin	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Oklahoma Norman Campus* Institute for Genomic Research*	Sequencing of the Gene Space of the Model Legume, Medicago truncatula	$10,886,431	3

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Fiscal Year 2002 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0217651	Allison, David	University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Missouri-Rolla*	Design & Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Studies in Plants: Toward Sound Statistical Procedures	$2,220,275	4
0218166	Baker, Barbara	University of California-Berkeley Cornell University* Institute of Genomic Research* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Potato Functional Genomics: Application to Analysis of Growth, Development, Metabolism and Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress	$7,778,910	5
0217594 0543503^	Cairney, John	Georgia Tech Research Corporation Institute for Genomic Research*	Genomics of Loblolly Pine Embryogenesis	$1,380,910	3
0217552	Carpita, Nicholas	Purdue University University of Connecticut* University of Florida* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Identification and Characterization of Cell Wall Mutants in Maize and Arabidopsis using Novel Spectroscopies	$5,921,989	4
0217653	Cramer, Grant	University of Nevada Reno Virginia Polytechnic and State University*	Integrative Functional Genomic Resource Development in Vitis vinifera: Abiotic Stress and Wine Quality	$3,609,951	4
0211807	Dean, Jeffrey	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	Transcriptome Responses to Environmental Conditions in Loblolly Pine Roots	$1,651,752	3
0211872	Dinesh-Kumar, Savithramma	Yale University	Functional Genomics of Host-Virus Interactions	$3,363,177	4
0211547	Dooner, Hugo	Rutgers University New Brunswick	A Set of Maize Transgenic Lines for Localized Mutagenesis Based on the Ac-Ds Transposon System	$140,612	1
0217312	Fromm, Michael	University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Arizona* University of California-Davis* University of California-San Diego* University of Florida*	A Protein Interaction Database for Rice Protein Kinases	$6,047,772	4
0211857	Galbraith, David	University of Arizona University of California-Riverside*	Technology Development: Novel Techniques for Discovery of Patterns of Gene Regulation within Complex Eukaryotic Tissues	$625,227	2
0211732	Henikoff, Steven	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes (TILLING) for Plant Functional Genomics	$568,551	1
0211659	Kamoun, Sophien	Ohio State University Research Foundation National Center for Genome Resources*	Functional Genomics of Phytophthora-Plant Interactions	$1,891,617	4
0211797	Keegstra, Kenneth	Michigan State University University of California-Riverside*	Functional Genomics of Hemicellulose Biosynthesis	$4,945,077	5
0211875	Klee, Harry	University of Florida Boyce Thompson Institute*	Functional Genomic Analysis of Fruit Flavor and Nutrition Pathways	$1,159,280	3
0211742	McCormick, Sheila	University of California-Berkeley	Functional Analyses of Plant Gamete Gene Expression	$1,135,486	4
0211851	Messing, Joachim	Rutgers University New Brunswick University of Arizona*	Sequencing the Maize Genome	$4,293,099	2
0211923	Michelmore, Richard	University of California-Davis University of Chicago*	Comparative Analysis of Resistance Gene Evolution	$3,031,729	5
0211842	Nguyen, Henry	University of Missouri-Columbia Donald Danforth Plant Science Center* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*	Functional Genomics of Root Growth and Root Signaling Under Drought	$4,549,050	4
0221536	Schubert, Karel	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Institute for Genomic Research*	Consortium for Maize Genomics	$5,928,755	2
0211924	Sundaresan, Venkatesan	University of California-Davis University of Arizona* University of Louisiana at Lafayette*	Insertional Mutagenesis Tools for Functional Genomics in Rice	$822,782	3
0211863	Tyler, Brett	Virginia Polytechnic and State University Ohio State University Research Foundation*	Dissecting Phytophthora Resistance in Soybean using Expression Profiling and Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci	$6,764,462	5
0211935	van Wijk, Klaas	Cornell University University of Nebraska-Lincoln* Boyce Thompson Institute*	From Proplastid to Chloroplast: Understanding Plastid Differentiation in Maize Through Microarray and Proteome Analysis	$3,827,647	5
0211700	Wendel, Jonathan	Iowa State University University of Arizona* University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc*	Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Cotton	$4,197,862	5
Young Investigator Awards in Plant Genome Research (YIA-PGR)
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0227357	Bogdanove, Adam	Iowa State University	YIA-PGR: Genomics of Rice Susceptibility to Bacterial Diseases	$1,095,589	5
0227618	Gang, David	University of Arizona	YIA-PGR: Functional Genomics of Plant Metabolism in Model Rhizome Species	$1,114,787	5
0227414	Jackson, Scott	Purdue University	YIA-PGR: Comparative Genomics of Rice: Reconstructing Rice Chromosome 1 in Related Species	$1,630,537	5
0227436 0443991^	Lawrence, Christopher	Virginia Polytechnic and State University North Carolina State University*	YIA-PGR: The Alternaria-Brassicaceae Pathosystem as a Model for Necrotropic Fungal-Plant Interactions	$1,363,771	4
0227310 0408768^	Springer, Nathan	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	YIA-PGR: Assessment of the Use of Oligonucleotide Microarrays for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Detection in Maize	$450,000	2
0227541	Van der Knaap, Esther	Ohio State University Research Foundation	YIA-PGR: Genetic, Molecular and Developmental Analysis of Variation in Tomato Fruit Morphology	$1,109,980	5
0227314	Vision, Todd	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	YIA-PGR: Tools for Plant Comparative Genomics	$1,010,845	5
0227103	Weinig, Cynthia	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of California-Davis*	YIA-PGR: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics of Crop and Weed Responses to Crowding	$1,734,804	5

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Fiscal Year 2001 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0110254	Brendel, Volker	Iowa State University	PlantGDB - Plant Genome Database and Analysis Tools	$158,996	2
0110069	Comstock, Jonathan	Boyce Thompson Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill* Cornell University* Oklahoma State University*	Genomic Analysis of Plant Water Use Efficiency	$3,995,267	4
0110206	Cook, Douglas	University of California-Davis Institute for Genomic Research* Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Inc* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Towards the Complete Gene Inventory and Function of the Medicago truncatula Genome	$5,803,691	4
0115642	Dean, Ralph	North Carolina State University Clemson University* Ohio State University Research Foundation* Purdue University* Texas A&M Research Foundation* University of Arizona* University of Kentucky Research Foundation*	Whole Genome Analysis of Pathogen-Host Recognition and Subsequent Responses in the Rice Blast Patho-System	$5,860,002	4
0110173	Delmer, Deborah	University of California-Davis Alabama A&M University Research Institution* Texas Tech University* Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Functional Genomics of Cellulose Synthesis in Economically Important Plants	$471,134	1
0115684	dePamphilis, Claude	Pennsylvania State University Cornell University* University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa* University of Florida* University of Michigan-Ann Arbor*	The Floral Genome Project	$7,399,286	5
0110035	Drews, Gary	University of Utah	Gene Targeting in Plants	$1,564,877	3
0110189	Hake, Sarah	University of California-Berkeley Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* Iowa State University* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* University of Missouri-Saint Louis* Stanford University* University of California-San Diego*	Regulation of Inflorescence Architecture in Maize	$5,343,199	5
0110115	Irish, Vivian	Yale University	Comparative Genomics of Angiosperm MADS-Box Genes	$435,432	2
0110154	Leach, Jan	Kansas State University Iowa State University* Ohio State University Research Foundation* University of California-Davis*	Activation-Tagged and Deletion Mutants and cDNA Microarrays for Functional Genomics of Rice	$500,000	2
0110512	Lemaux, Peggy	University of California-Berkeley Oregon State University* USDA-ARS*	Transposon-Mediated Functional Genomics in Barley	$1,532,663	5
0110143	Martienssen, Robert	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Systematic Transposon Mutagenesis of the Maize Gene Space	$1,990,821	4
0110004	McCouch, Susan	Cornell University	Linking Rice, Arabidopsis and the Grasses to Explore Natural Genetic Variation	$1,356,830	3
0109732	Mendes, Pedro	Virginia Polytechnic and State University Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Inc* Southeastern Oklahoma State University*	An Integrated Approach to Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics in a Model Legume	$3,587,432	4
0110528 0244435^	Meyers, Blake	University of Delaware	Signature Sequencing for Quantitative Expression Analysis and Gene Discovery	$966,641	2
0110168	Newton, Kathleen	University of Missouri-Columbia University of Utah* Washington University*	Sequence, Evolution and Expression of Mitochondrial Genomes of the Genus Zea	$2,339,813	3
0115911	Ozias-Akins, Peggy	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Aligning Physical and Functional Maps of a Genomic Region Spanning the Apomixis Locus by Exploiting Model Cereal Genomics	$1,132,318	4
0115903	Paterson, Andrew	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Clemson University* Cornell University*	Grass Genome Biodiversity: Application of Genomic Tools from Sorghum and Related Grasses to Identify and Analyze Variation Structure and Function of C4 Grass Genomes	$3,962,498	4
0110170	Peterson, Thomas	Iowa State University	Nested Deletions: A New Tool for Plant Genomics Research	$648,549	3
0110134	Phillips, Ronald	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	A Radiation Hybrid System for the Genetic and Physical Mapping of the Corn Genome	$3,081,245	4
0110140	Pratt, Lee	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Functional Analysis of the Sorghum Transcriptome	$3,576,196	3
0116076	Tanksley, Steven	Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute* Clemson University*	Exploitation of Tomato as a Model for Comparative and Functional Genomics	$6,499,895	5
0110124	Thomashow, Michael	Michigan State University Ohio State University Research Foundation* Oregon State University* Carnegie Institute of Washington (CA)*	Low Temperature Regulatory Circuits and Gene Regulons in Higher Plants	$5,072,963	5
0110023	Wang, Kan	Iowa State University North Carolina State University* Purdue University* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Establishment of Robust Maize Transformation Systems	$4,227,981	5

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Fiscal Year 2000 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
0077756	Barkan, Alice	University of Oregon Eugene Boyce Thompson Institute* Cornell University* University of Nebraska-Lincoln*	Functional Genomics of Chloroplast Biogenesis	$2,732,420	4
0077503	Bird, David	North Carolina State University Santa Fe Institute* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill* Washington University*	Genomic Analysis of a Nematode-Plant Interaction: A Tool to Study Plant Biology	$2,607,829	3
0076892	Brutnell, Thomas	Boyce Thompson Institute	Regional Mutagenesis Utilizing Activator (Ac) in Maize	$1,080,369	5
0077719	Carpita, Nicholas	Purdue University University of Wisconsin-Madison*	A High Throughput Screen to Identify and Clone Maize and Arabidopsis Cell Wall Biogenesis-Related Genes	$600,000	2
0077622	Collmer, Alan	Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute* Institute for Genomic Research* Kansas State University* University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Nebraska-Lincoln*	Functional Genomics of the Interactions of Tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000	$4,996,020	5
0077510	Dinesh-Kumar, Savithramma	Yale University	Development of Vectors for Virus-Induced Plant Gene Silencing	$635,624	2
0077766	Dvorak, Jan	University of California-Davis Kansas State University* Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Assessment of the Insular Organization of the Wheat D Genome by Physical Mapping	$4,435,386	4
0077769 0335498^	Estelle, Mark	Indiana University Boston University* Rice University* University of Massachusetts-Amherst* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Development of New Genetic Resources for Auxin Biology	$1,348,086	3
0077378	Guerinot, Mary Lou	Dartmouth College Northern Arizona University* The Scripps Research Institute* University of California-San Diego* University of Missouri-Columbia*	Gene Discovery in Aid of Plant Nutrition, Human Health and Environmental Remediation	$4,414,643	4
0077737	Henikoff, Steven	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Institute for Systems Biology*	Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes (TILLING) for Plant Functional Genomics	$2,633,390	2
0077617	Lam, Eric	Rutgers University New Brunswick Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory*	Chromatin Charting: Organization and Dynamics of Plant Nuclear DNA in situ	$4,326,623	5
0077676	McCarty, Donald	University of Florida Iowa State University* Rutgers University New Brunswick* University of Arizona*	Functional Genomics of Endosperm Development in Maize	$4,999,995	5
0077713	Mullet, John	Texas A&M Research Foundation	Gene Mapping in Sorghum Using Direct Selection Technology	$740,001	3
0077774	Osborn, Thomas	University of Wisconsin-Madison Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory* Texas A&M Research Foundation* Purdue University* University of Washington*	Functional Genomics of Plant Polyploids	$4,996,886	5
0077692	Sheen, Jen	Massachusetts General Hospital Iowa State University*	Functional Analysis of Plant Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Stress and Hormone Signaling	$4,559,130	5
0077709	Wessler, Susan	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Clemson University* Cornell University* Washington University*	Transposable Elements in Rice: A Whole Genome Approach	$3,415,866	5

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Fiscal Year 1999 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
9975866	Baker, Barbara	University of california-Berkeley Cornell University* Institute for Genomic Research* University of Wisconin-Madison* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Tools for Potato Structural and Functional Genomics	$5,300,000	3
9975793	Bennetzen, Jeffrey	Purdue University National Center for Genome Resources* University of California-Davis* Washington State University*	Assessment of Gene Content, Colineartiy and Evolution in Barley, Maize, Rice, Sorghum and Wheat	$2,008,066	2
9975827	Dawe, R. Kelly	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Functional Genomics of Maize Centromeres	$2,510,000	5
9975718 0196098^	Ecker, Joseph	The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Stanford University* University of California-Berkeley*	Global Expression Studies for the Arabidopsis Genome	$7,600,000	3
9975715	Gelvin, Stanton	Purdue Univerity SUNY at Buffalo* Frederich Miescher Institute*	Identification of Plant Genes Involved in Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation	$4,440,751	5
9975930	Jorgensen, Richard	University of Arizona Johns Hopkins University* Purdue University* University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Wisconsin-Madison* Washington University*	Chromatin-Based Control of Gene Expression in Maize and Arabidopsis	$10,500,000	5
9975920	Ketchum, Karen Quackenbush, John^	Institute for Genomic Research	High-Density DNA Microarrays for Global Gene Expression Studies in Plants	$2,179,049	3
9975618	Messing, Joachim	Rutgers University New Brunswick Purdue University*	Colinearity of Maize and Sorghum at the DNA Sequence Level	$3,500,000	4
9975971	Michelmore, Richard	University of California-Davis Kansas State University* University of Wisconsin-Madison*	Functional and Comparative Genomics of Disease Resistance Gene Homologs	$2,530,000	3
9975989	Qualset, Calvin	University of California-Davis Colorado State University* Cornell University* Kansas State University* North Dakota State University* Texas Tech University* University of California-Riverside* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Nebraska-Lincoln* Washington State University*	Structure and Function of the Expressed Portion of the Wheat Genomes	$7,300,000	4
9975815	Raikhel, Natasha	Michigan State University	Functional Genomics of Hemicellulose Biosynthesis	$2,250,000	3
9975868	Schnable, Patrick	Iowa State University Jackson Laboratory*	High-Throughput Mapping Tools for Maize Genomics	$2,947,701	3
9975606	Schwartz, David	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Genome-Wide Restriction Map of Rice by Optical Mapping	$1,529,544	3
9975806	Sederoff, Ronald	North Carolina State University Texas A&M Research Foundation* University of California-Davis* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* Institute of Paper Technology*	Genomics of Wood Formation in Loblolly Pine	$4,450,000	3
9975808	Walker, John	University of Missouri-Columbia The Scripps Research Institute* University of Arizona* University of California-San Diego* University of Florida* University of New Hampshire* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*	Functional Genomics of Plant Phosphorylation	$2,983,734	3

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Fiscal Year 1998 Awards Collaborative Research on Functional Genomics
Award #	Principal Investigator	Institution	Title	Total Award ($)	Total Duration (Yrs)
9813360 0223905^	Bohnert, Hans	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Purdue University* Oklahoma State University*	Genomics of Plant Stress Tolerance	$8,270,704	4
9813365	Cande, W. Zacheus	University of California-Berkeley	An Integrated Map of Cytological, Genetic and Physical Information of Maize	$762,977	4
9872655	Coe, Edward	University of Missouri-Columbia University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* Clemson University*	Comprehensive Genetic, Physical and Database Resources For Maize	$11,075,485	5
9872664 0196179^	Cook, Douglas	University of California-Davis University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities*	Medicago truncatula as the Nodal Species for Comparative and Functional Legume Genomics	$3,440,561	3
9872627	Delmer, Deborah	University of California-Davis Texas Tech University*	Comparative Functional Genomics of the celA Gene Family in Plants	$819,818	3
9872631 0096033^	Doebley, John	University of Wisconsin-Madison North Carolina State University* University of California-Irvine*	Evolutionary Genomics of Maize	$5,847,106	5
9813364	Dooner, Hugo	Rutgers University New Brunswick	Use of the Transposon AC as a Gene-Searching Engine in the Maize Genome	$1,334,173	3
9872629	Fedoroff, Nina	Pennsylvania State University	New DNA Microarray Detection Techniques in the Study of Stress-Induced Changes in Plant Gene Expression	$1,801,988	3
9872638	Green, Pamela Ohlrogge, John^	Michigan State University Carnegie Institute of Washington (CA)* Stanford University* Yale University* Universith of Wisconsin-Madison*	A Functional Analysis of the Arabidopsis Genome via Gene Disrpution and Global Gene Expression Analysis	$8,700,000	3
9872636	Lam, Eric	Rutgers University New Brunswick	Chromatic Charting: Organization and Dynamics of Plant Nuclear DNA in situ	$676,234	2
9872677	Lemieux, Bertrand Hawke, James^	University of Delaware University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* Massachusetts General Hospital*	Genomic Analysis of Seed Quality Traits in Corn	$2,197,783	3
9872635	Lightfoot, David	Southern Illinois University Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Integrative Physical Mapping of the Soybean Genome	$1,303,644	3
9872644	Martienssen, Robert	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of California-Berkeley*	Center for Comparative Genomics in Model and Crop Plants	$1,842,208	3
9872650	Phillips, Ronald	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	A Radiation Hybrid and Cloning System for the Genetic and Physical Mapping of the Corn Genome	$1,830,669	3
9872649	Pratt, Lee Paterson, Andrew^	University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Cornell University* Clemson University*	Cross-Linked Sorghum and Rice Physical Maps as a Foundation for Analyzing Genome Structure, Function and Variation in C4 Grasses	$3,247,755	3
9872641	Preuss, Daphne	University of Chicago Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Plant Centromere Functions Defined by Tetrad Analysis and Artificial Chromosomes	$2,274,211	5
9813361	Sung, Z. Renee	University of California-Berkeley	Repackaging the Corn Genome for Molecular Mapping	$301,072	2
9872617	Tanksley, Steven	Cornell University Boyce Thompson Institute* Texas A&M Research Foundation*	Development of Tools for Tomato Functional Genomics: Application to Analysis of Fruit Development, Responses to Pathogens, and Genome Synteny with Arabidopsis	$4,648,484	3
9813392	Venter, Craig Ronning, Catherine^ Kirkness, Ewen^	Institute for Genomic Research	Generation of a Tomato EST Database	$3,246,725	3
9872565	Vodkin, Lila	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Iowa State University* University of Missouri-Columbia* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* Northern Arizona University*	A Functional Genomics Program for Soybean	$4,460,359	4
9872657	Walbot, Virginia	Stanford University University of Arizona* University of California-Berkeley* University of California-San Diego* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* Iowa State University*	Maize Gene Discovery, Sequencing and Phenotypic Analysis	$12,548,370	5
9872630	Wilkins, Thea	University of California-Davis University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc* Texas Tech University* Iowa State University* Clemson University*	Structure and Function of the Cotton Genome: An Integrated Analysis of the Genetics, Development and Evolution of the Cotton Fiber	$3,800,001	3
9872676	Wing, Rod Tomkins, Jeffrey^	Clemson University	A BAC Library Resource for Crop Genomics	$616,521	5

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