2022 Request for Proposals: Doug and Maria Bayer New Initiatives Fund for Sustainable Agriculture
As a result of a generous endowment from Doug and Maria Bayer to Michigan State University, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is able to provide seed funding to support collaborative research projects in sustainable agriculture and food systems. More specifically, projects funded with this 2022 seed funding are intended to initiate research in sustainable agriculture by bringing faculty together from MSU and other institutions to plan and coordinate grants from the largest institutions that fund agricultural research, federal and state agencies, and large national foundations, thus leveraging seed funding into major external grant opportunities. Click here to view the RFP. Proposals are due February 28, 2022.
News
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MSU researcher receives $1.9M grant to develop testing framework for PFAS toxicity
Published on January 25, 2022
Cheryl Murphy, a professor in the MSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and director of the Center for PFAS Research, leads the project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. -
MSU researchers part of team investigating winter stresses of turfgrass in northern climates
Published on January 24, 2022
Led by the University of Minnesota, the group received an $8M USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant -
New MSU research details lake trout reproductive response to sea lamprey parasitism
Published on January 13, 2022
Two recently published papers examine how life history determines reproductive response of Michigan lake trout to sea lamprey attacks, as well as identifying a biomarker to more accurately quantify parasitism rates.
In the News
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Plants get stressed too and MSU is looking at thousands of genes to understand how plants manage their stress
Published on January 12, 2022 by MSU College of Natural Science; MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
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How do algae survive excess oxygen? Recent discovery gives clues to boost biofuel production
Published on December 22, 2021 by MSU College of Natural Science; MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
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New limitations to photosynthesis discovered by observing plants in the real world
Published on December 17, 2021 by MSU College of Natural Science; MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory