Member Institutions:

• Bowling Green State U.
• Cleveland State U.
• Kent State U.
• Medical College of Ohio
• Miami U.
• The Ohio State U.
• Ohio U.
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Toledo
• Wright State U.
• Youngstown State U.

Grants

The Ohio legislature has recognized the OPBC and provided funds administered by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) to initiate a comprehensive, cooperative research program across the state. These funds are administered through a competitive grants program to encourage the assembly and development of the strongest and most relevant inter-university and interdisciplinary teams. We are targeting sixteen areas for specific exploration. There are two categories of OPBC Competitive Grants: Full Research Grants ($20-60K) and Research Initiative Grants ($10K or less). The only ones actually funded at this point are the Research Initiative Grants. These grants are for the development of preliminary data in areas which promise to be of importance to Ohio Agriculture.For more information about our Grants, check out OARDC's Proposal Submission Information for the OPBC

Funded Full Proposals ($20,000 - $60,000)

• Biotechnology for Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils in Ohio
  $40,000.00
  University of Toledo: Deborah A. Neher, Alison L. Spongberg, Daryl L. Moorhead, John Gray, Scott M. Leisner, Stephen Goldman
  The Ohio State University: Desh P.S. Verma, Richard Sayre



• Signal Mimic Compounds: A New Class of Antibacterial Substances from Plants
  $40,000.00
  The Ohio State University: Wolfgang D. Bauer, Jim Metzger
  University of Dayton: Jayne B. Robinson



• Minisatellite DNA Variation Compared in American Chestnut Plants that are Susceptible versus Resistant to the Chestnut Blight
  $20,000.00
  University of Cincinnati: Steve Rogstad
  Miami University: Carolyn H. Keiffer



• Quantifying the Role of the Physical Barrier in the Resistance Response of Soybean Hypocotyls to Phytophthora sojae
  $20,000.00
  Bowling Green State University: Paul Morris
  Miami University: Nicholas P. Money
  The Ohio State University: Terry L. Graham



• Identification of Genes Responsible for Homologous Chromosome Pairing
  $35,000.00
  Miami University: Christopher A. Makaroff



• Stable Hybrid Production and its Impact on Ohio's Agricultural Economy
  $55,000.00
  University of Toledo: Stephen Goldman
  Miami University: Christopher A. Makaroff



• Expression and Interactions of Apoplastic Defense Proteins in Soybean
  $40,000.00
  The Ohio State University: Terry L. Graham
  Ohio University: Marcia Kieliszewski



• Establishing a Statewide TAC Library Service for Ohio Plant Molecular Biologists
  $59,360.00
  The Ohio State University: Guo-liang Wang
  Fourteen additonal PIs are on this grant statewide



• Over-expression of SNF1 Kinase for Resistance to Pathogens
  $40,000.00
  The Ohio State University: David M. Bisaro



• Virus-Based Gene Silencing and Expression Vectors for Corn
  $20,000.00
  The Ohio State University: Margaret G. Redinbaugh, Saskia A. Hogenhout, Tea Meulia, Donald Gordon, Erich Grotewold
  University of Toledo: John Gray



• Macro Array Pathway (MAP) blots as a Resource for Understanding Crop Response to Stress
  $20,000.00
  The Ohio State University: David M. Francis, Sophien Kamoun, Jyan-Chyun Jang, Tara Van Toai
  Cleveland State University: Harry van Keulen

Funded Research Initiation Proposals ($10,000 or less)

• Development of cold-hardy palms for the southern Ohio Green Industry
  Miami University: David Francko and Kenneth Wilson



• Native yeasts of Vitus vinifera and changes during fermentation
  Cleveland State University: Donald Lindmark and Harry van Keulen
  Youngstown State University: John Usis and Carl Johnston



• Prospective new introductions from Cuphea for use in Ohio's Green Industry
  The Ohio State University: Jim Metzger
  Kent State University: Shirley Graham



• Promoting generalist arthropod populations in corn using discrete habitat refugia
  Miami University: Alan Cady
  Youngstown State University: John Usis



• Fungal fatty acid desaturating enzymes for oil seed modification
  Miami University: Robert Minto



• Nucleic acid arrays tailored for soybean defense
  The Ohio State University: Madge Graham



• Effects of genistein on soybean and Phytophthora hexose transporters
  The Ohio State University: Terry Graham
  University of Dayton: Jerry Servaites



• Genetic tools to study virulence and insect transmission of plant pathogenic molicutes
  The Ohio State University: Saskia Hogenhout