Current Support

Monsanto, “Physiology and genetics of maize root adaptation to water deficits”, 4/08-9/11. RE Sharp

Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, “Improvement of drought tolerance in soybean: plasticity of root system development”, 6/09-5/11. RE Sharp, HT Nguyen, JG Shannon, FB Fritschi

USDA/NRI, Plant Biology: Environmental Stress Program, “Gene discovery in resurrection species: a novel genetic resource for conferring dehydration stress tolerance to crop plants”, 8/07-8/10. MJ Oliver (UDSA-ARS, Columbia Missouri), RE Sharp (Univ. Missouri), JC Cushman (Univ. Nevada-Reno), P Payton (USDA, Lubbock)

Missouri Life Sciences Research Board, “Drought simulators critical to translational research in plant science”, 1/09-12/11. FB Fritschi, RE Sharp, RL Kallenbach, JG Shannon

Generation Challenge Program, “Targeting drought-avoidance root traits to enhance rice productivity under water-limited environments”, 11/08-10/11. R Serraj (International Rice Research Institute) and twenty Co-PIs and collaborators from ten institutions. Sharp is a collaborator with Co-PI L Wade, Charles Sturt Univ., Australia