2014 MSU AgBioResearch Annual Report: Overview
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EmailThe MSU AgBioResearch annual report highlights a cross-section of AgBioResearch-funded projects across its five priority areas.
The MSU AgBioResearch annual report highlights a cross-section of AgBioResearch-funded projects across its five priority areas:
Food and Health
- Seeing clearly: Fighting diabetic vision loss
- Responding to invasion: MSU shields fruit industry against tiny fly
- Good egg versus bad egg: Understanding the makings of a high quality oocyte
- Risky business: Training researchers to assess dangerous microbes
Environmental Stewardship
- Paradigm shifts: Re-envisioning agricultural landscapes
- Weather and climate: Managing two of the most uncontrollable factors
- Changing science: Big data provides impressive potential for ecology research
- Looking at forests: New light shed on importance of tree diversity
Secure Food and Fiber Systems
- Changing the cycle: Deciphering the uptake and metabolism of sulfur in plants
- Putting soil to work: Practical research yields major soil health improvements
- Standing watch: Protecting Michigan crops from dangerous pathogens
- NIH-USDA research program showcases advantages of using farm animal models
Enhancing Profitability
- The next phase: Commercialization of biosensor technology
- Speeding up the clock: Accelerating fruit breeding through genetic technology
- Better with time: Improving wine grape production
- Redesigning genetic technology: Efforts aim to cut costs, improve accessibility
Families and Community Vitality
- The child’s best interest: Monitoring the presence of abuse in child custody exchanges
- Bite back: Understanding West Nile virus in urban populations
- Where have all the fish gone? Studying walleye population change
- On the decline: Studying eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in Michigan
The report also contains a message from the Director, general information on ABR faculty and staff, outlying research centers, publications and a financial report.
