AgBioResearch

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  MSU researcher receives $750K grant to examine effects of wildfire burn severity on soil health

  Published on February 14, 2022
  Project is funded by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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  MSU AgBioResearch announces two new leaders to assist with oversight of research portfolio

  Published on February 9, 2022
  Dana M. Infante and James J. Kells have been appointed to new leadership roles in MSU AgBioResearch.

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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.

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  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

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  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.

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  Opinion: MSU food safety expert Felicia Wu encourages rice-eating countries with vitamin A deficiency to consider Golden Rice

  Published on January 12, 2022
  In December 2021, Wu co-authored an opinion piece detailing the dire consequences of vitamin A deficiency for children in many developing countries and the need to address the problem head on.

Publications

• Futures Magazine

  Futures is written in non-scientific terms for the general public. Each issue profiles the work of several AgBioResearch scientists.

• Legislative Reports

  The MSU AgBioResearch and MSU Extension Legislative report describes how the organizations leveraged state funding, fueled the economy and connected with Michigan residents over the past year.