Aug 27, 2015

Gloeckner Foundation Elects Board of Directors, Awards GrantsSource: The Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation

The Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation Inc. elected a new president, vice president and board member at its annual board meeting in May; the foundation also recently awarded 15 grants totaling $149,775.

Dr. Richard Craig, former vice president of the Foundation, was elected president and chair of the research committee. Dr. Paul Allen Hammer, professor emeritus of floriculture at Purdue University, was elected vice president. Paul Daum, former president, was elected chairman emeritus. Dr. David G. Clark, professor at the University of Florida, joined the board and will serve on the research committee.

The following grants were recently awarded:
$14,000 – Kansas State University – To study the effect of the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, and the rove beetle, Dalotia coriaria, in suppressing populations of the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis.

$12,264 – North Carolina State University – For expanding leaf tissue nutritional standards in bedding plants.

$12,000 – University of Florida – To illuminate Lilium floral fragrance.

$11,841 – Stephen F. Austin State University – For their herbaceous perennial species trial garden.

$10,000 – Iowa State University – For controlling growth of containerized herb bedding plants using cultural practices.

$10,000 – North Carolina State University – To study the effects of cultivar, soil moisture and fungicide applications on the infection dynamics of Pythium aphanidermatum and the development of Pythium root rot in poinsettia.

$10,000 – University of Georgia – To increase the efficiency of LED lighting through biofeedback and real-time control.

$9,000 – Purdue University – For e-GRO Instructional videos.

$8,170 – North Carolina State University – To create interactive insect lifecycle photographs and guide.

$7,000.00 – Kansas State University – For understanding and abating intumescence development in Cuphea spp.

$5,000.00 – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – For modeling of neuropeptides for nematode resistance in lilies.

$5,000.00 – University of Washington – For the induction of double flowers by transposon mutagenesis in Thalictrum.

For more information, visit www.gloecknerfoundation.org.