Source: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY submitted to
IMPROVING PLANT BREEDING STRATEGIES THROUGH ENHANCED COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES FOR ANALYTICAL PLATFORMS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
ACTIVE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1032329
Grant No.
2024-67014-42593
Cumulative Award Amt.
$8,517.00
Proposal No.
2023-11125
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jun 1, 2024
Project End Date
May 31, 2028
Grant Year
2024
Program Code
[A1141]- Plant Health and Production and Plant Products: Plant Breeding for Agricultural Production
Project Director
Kachroo, P.
Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
500 S LIMESTONE 109 KINKEAD HALL
LEXINGTON,KY 40526-0001
Performing Department
(N/A)
Non Technical Summary
To promote education while maintaining cutting-edge research, we have established an analytical core that houses several gas- (GC) and liquid-chromatography (LC) units. The Center for Agricultural and Life Science Metabolomics (CALM) provides important analytical services for a wide range of applications related to plant breeding for crop improvement and has capabilities to detect and measure targeted and untargeted chemicals. The analytical instruments at CALM are controlled usingcomputers. Three of these computers use Windows 7 operating system, which is no longer supported at UK. This project will allow us toupgrade both the analytical software as well as the computer. The proposed computer upgrades will tremendously strengthen our data analyses capabilities and allow us to cater to the diverse needs of CALM users. These upgrades will also provide us access to latest platforms necessary for data analysis and ensure continued success of on-going research.
Animal Health Component
15%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
70%
Applied
15%
Developmental
15%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
20624991020100%
Knowledge Area
206 - Basic Plant Biology;

Subject Of Investigation
2499 - Plant research, general;

Field Of Science
1020 - Physiology;
Goals / Objectives
Major goals are to upgrade computers and software that is used to operate analytical equipment in our core facility.
Project Methods
Methods related to this project will be posted/updated on the CALM website:https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/lab/Analytical-CORE