The main goal of this project is to insure that Pennsylvania swine industry is preserved and positioned for future growth. This will be achieved through a novel control program for the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) that embraces emerging technologies such as geographical information systems and genetic fingerprinting. PRRS is the most economically devastating disease faced by swine farmers today and remains an economic threat sufficient to force farms out of business. Conventional disease control measures such as vaccination have failed to adequately curtail the transmission of this costly virus. They will examine an alternative approach to PRRS control that focuses...
Improve soybeans for durable resistance to emerging populations of soybean cyst nematode and yield limiting fungal pathogens that are adapted to Tennessee.
The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.