Source: UNIV OF HAWAII submitted to NRP
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH (TSTAR) UMBRELLA B: TROPICAL AGRICULTURE
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0197779
Grant No.
2003-34135-13981
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
2003-05119
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 15, 2003
Project End Date
Sep 14, 2006
Grant Year
2003
Program Code
[AH]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIV OF HAWAII
3190 MAILE WAY
HONOLULU,HI 96822
Performing Department
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
Non Technical Summary
The tropical and subtropical regions of the U.S. have unique agricultural challenges and opportunities with limited local resources and limited access to national resources. Regional agricultural research is crucial to meeting increasing challenges and opportunities in tropical and subtropical island environments. The project provides research that maintains and enhances production of tropical and subtropical agricultural products while encouraging agricultural practices that are environmentally sustainable.
Animal Health Component
35%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
35%
Applied
35%
Developmental
30%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1112130100010%
2011510108010%
2012121104010%
2020640104010%
2041030102010%
2062020104010%
2110699113010%
2121099110210%
2132499114010%
3013610102010%
Goals / Objectives
Research will be conducted to face challenges including continuing pest and plant disease pressure in the year-round growing season, provide solutions to the influx of alien pests and weeds in Pacific Island agroecosystems, and find post-harvest processing to extend shelf life and preserve quality. Research will provide opportunities including new germ-plasm collection, maintenance, breeding and genetic engineering for novel products, value added processing, marketing of tropical crops and restoration and maintenance of health agroecosystems.
Project Methods
Provides research that maintains and enhances production of established tropical and subtropical agricultural products. Develop agricultural practices in the tropics and subtropics that are environmentally acceptable in tropical island ecosystems. Expand and diversify presently unexploited food, fiber and ornamental which have potential for commercial production in the U.S. tropical and subtropical regions. Expand tropical and subtropical agriculture's linkages to related industries and economic sectors.

Progress 09/15/03 to 09/14/06

Outputs
This project is an umbrella project that covers the listed state projects below. Please refer to these projects for progress reports. 1) HAW00537-1015S Developing an Effective Bradyrhizobium Inoculant for Acacia koa. Borthakur, Dulal; 2) HAW00818-1015S Genetics and Breeding of Aphid Resistance in Tropical Corn. Brewbaker, James; 3) HAW00991-1015S Detection, Characterization, and Management of Phytoplasma Diseases in Hawaii. Hu, John; 4) HAW00848-1015S Fast Track Gene Screening in Orchids. Kuehnle, Adelheid; 5) HAW00552-1015S Developing Pharmaceutical Production Systems for Hawaiian-based Agriculture. Kumagai, Monto; 6) HAW00846-1015S Biological Basis for Malformation of Papaya Fruit. Paull, Robert; 7) HAW00814-1015S Pyrethrum Aerosol Treatments to Control Yellowjackets and Other Invasive Insect Species on Christmas Trees Imported into Hawaii. Paull, Robert; 8) HAW00553-1015S A Novel Cell Microarray for High-Throughput Analysis of Plant Gene Functions. Su, Winston; 9) HAW00205-1015S Role of Nitric Acid (NO) on Luteal, Endometrial and Placental Function. Weems, Charles; 10) HAW00843-1015S Dispersal and Population Genetics of Invasive Weeds: Management Implications. Wieczorek, Ania; 11) HAW00988-1015S Enhanced Biocontrol of Invasive Leafminers Through Analysis of Parasitoid Behavior and Competition. Wright, Mark; 12) HAW00849-1015S Fate of Wastewater Effluent Used for Irrigation on Turfgrass Landscape in the American Pacific. Yost, Russell.

Impacts
Please refer to the individual projects listed above for the specific expected impacts.

Publications

  • So, Y. S. 2003. Corn leaf aphid and polysora rust resistance in tropical maize. M. S. Thesis, Dept. Horticulture, Univ. Hawaii. 86 pp.
  • Borth, W.B., R.P.P. Almeida, S.K. Fukuda, R.T. Hamasaki, Y-K.K. Choy, and Hu, J.S. 2006. Molecular Characterization of Watercress Yellows Phytoplasma and Its Transmission by Macrosteles sp. in Hawaii. Phytopathology 96:14. Kumagai, M.H. and Miller, P.: Development of electronic barcodes for use in plant pathology and functional genomics. Plant Mol Biol. (2006) 61:515-523.
  • Kumagai, Monto, and della-Cioppa, Guy R., Method for conferring herbicide, pest, or disease resistance in plant hosts. US Patent 6,987,213, January 17, 2006.
  • Parambam, R.I., Bugos, R., Su, W.W. 2004. Engineering green fluorescent protein as a dual functional tag. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 86(6), 687-97.
  • Su, W.W., Guan, P.Z., Bugos, R. 2004. High level of secretion of functional green fluorescent protein from transgenic tobacco cell cultures: characterization and sensing. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 85(6), 610-9.
  • Peckham, G.D. 2005. Development of a GFP-based Recombinant Protein Purification System for Plant Cells. PhD. thesis, Univ. Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI.
  • Peckham, G. D., Bugos, R.C., Su, W.W. 2006. Purification of GFP fusion proteins from transgenic plant cell cultures. Protein Expr. Purif. 49, 183-189.
  • C. W. Weems, Y. S. Weems, T. Uchima, E. Lennon, A. Raney, K. Goto, A. Ong, H. Zaleski, S. Tatman, D. Neuendorff, and R. D. Randel. 2005. Effects of Nitric Oxide and Endothelin-1 on caruncular Endometrial Secretion of PGE2 and PGF2a. Biol. Reprod. Abstract. M577, page 208.
  • Y.S. Weems, R.D. Randel, S. Tatman, A. W. Lewis, D. A. Neuendorff and C.W. Weems. 2005. In vivo Progestin Treatments Inhibit Nitric Oxide and Endothelin-1-Induced Bovine Endometrial Prostaglandin (PG) E (PGE) Secretion In Vitro. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators. 78:276-290.
  • Weems, Y. S., E. Lennon, T. Uchima, A. Raney, K. Goto, A. Ong, H. Zaleski, and C. W. Weems. 2005. Is Nitric Oxide Luteolytic or Antiluteolytic?. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators. 78:141-150.
  • Le Roux, J.J., Wieczorek, A.M., Ramadan, M.M. and Tran, C.T. 2006. The native provenance of invasive fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis Poir.) in the Hawaiian Islands as inferred from phylogenetic analysis. Diversity and Distributions 12: 694-702.


Progress 10/01/04 to 09/30/05

Outputs
This project is an umbrella project that covers the listed state projects below. Please refer to these projects for progress reports. 1) HAW00537-1015S Developing an Effective Bradyrhizobium Inoculant for Acacia koa. Borthakur, Dulal; 2) HAW00818-1015S Genetics and Breeding of Aphid Resistance in Tropical Corn. Brewbaker, James; 3) HAW00991-1015S Detection, Characterization, and Management of Phytoplasma Diseases in Hawaii. Hu, John; 4) HAW00848-1015S Fast Track Gene Screening in Orchids. Kuehnle, Adelheid; 5) HAW00552-1015S Developing Pharmaceutical Production Systems for Hawaiian-based Agriculture. Kumagai, Monto; 6) HAW00846-1015S Biological Basis for Malformation of Papaya Fruit. Paull, Robert; 7) HAW00814-1015S Pyrethrum Aerosol Treatments to Control Yellowjackets and Other Invasive Insect Species on Christmas Trees Imported into Hawaii. Paull, Robert; 8) HAW00553-1015S A Novel Cell Microarray for High-Throughput Analysis of Plant Gene Functions. Su, Winston; 9) HAW00205-1015S Role of Nitric Acid (NO) on Luteal, Endometrial and Placental Function. Weems, Charles; 10) HAW00843-1015S Dispersal and Population Genetics of Invasive Weeds: Management Implications. Wieczorek, Ania; 11) HAW00988-1015S Enhanced Biocontrol of Invasive Leafminers Through Analysis of Parasitoid Behavior and Competition. Wright, Mark; 12) HAW00849-1015S Fate of Wastewater Effluent Used for Irrigation on Turfgrass Landscape in the American Pacific. Yost, Russell.

Impacts
Refer to the individal projects listed above for specific expected impacts.

Publications

  • Ackerman, C.M., Yu, Q., Moore, P.H., Paull, R.E. and Ming, R. 2005. Cloning and characterization of APETALA3 and PISTILLATA orthlogs in papaya. Abstract at the Plant Biology 2005 Conference. Seattle, Washington. July 16-20, 2005.
  • Huang, L.Y. 2005. HIGH-THROUGHPUT TRANSIENT GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANT CELLS. MS Thesis, Dept. Univ. Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI.


Progress 10/01/03 to 09/30/04

Outputs
This project is an umbrella project that covers the listed state projects below. Please refer to these projects for progress reports. 1) HAW00537-1015S Developing an Effective Bradyrhizobium Inoculant for Acacia koa. Borthakur, Dulal; 2) HAW00818-1015S Genetics and Breeding of Aphid Resistance in Tropical Corn. Brewbaker, James; 3) HAW00991-1015S Detection, Characterization, and Management of Phytoplasma Diseases in Hawaii. Hu, John; 4) HAW00848-1015S Fast Track Gene Screening in Orchids. Kuehnle, Adelheid; 5) HAW00552-1015S Developing Pharmaceutical Production Systems for Hawaiian-based Agriculture. Kumagai, Monto; 6) HAW00846-1015S Biological Basis for Malformation of Papaya Fruit. Paull, Robert; 7) HAW00814-1015S Pyrethrum Aerosol Treatments to Control Yellowjackets and Other Invasive Insect Species on Christmas Trees Imported into Hawaii. Paull, Robert; 8) HAW00553-1015S A Novel Cell Microarray for High-Throughput Analysis of Plant Gene Functions. Su, Winston; 9) HAW00205-1015S Role of Nitric Acid (NO) on Luteal, Endometrial and Placental Function. Weems, Charles; 10) HAW00843-1015S Dispersal and Population Genetics of Invasive Weeds: Management Implications. Wieczorek, Ania; 11) HAW00988-1015S Enhanced Biocontrol of Invasive Leafminers Through Analysis of Parasitoid Behavior and Competition. Wright, Mark; 12) HAW00849-1015S Fate of Wastewater Effluent Used for Irrigation on Turfgrass Landscape in the American Pacific. Yost, Russell.

Impacts
Refer to the individal projects listed above for specific expected impacts.

Publications

  • Leary, J., Singleton, P.W. and Borthakur, D. 2004. Canopy nodulation of the endemic tree legume Acacia koa in the mesic forests of Hawaii. Ecology. 85:3151-3157.
  • Leary, J., Singleton, P.W. and Borthakur, D. 2004. Canopy nodulation of the endemic tree legume Acacia koa in the mesic forests of Hawaii. Abstract of oral presentation at the 19th North American Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Conference, held at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, June 27-July 1, 2004. p16
  • Busto, J.L. and Kumagai, M.H. 2004. Tobamoviral vectors: Developing a production sytstem for pharmaceuticals in transfected plants. Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, 1st Ed. Goodman, R. Ed. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 2004. Vol. 1229-1232.
  • Villalobos, E.M., Wright, M.G., Johnson, M.W. and Vorsino, A. 2003. Ecological parameters that affect the behavioral response and efficiency of Ganaspidium utilis as a bio-control agent of Liriomyza trifolli. Paper presented (by EMV) at XIII International Entomophagous Insects Workshop, Tucson, AZ, July 27-31. Abstract published in Journal of Insect Science. 3:33, p. 27.
  • Ackerman, C.M., Yu, Q., Moore, P.H., Paull, R.E., Steiger, D.L. and Ming, R. 2004. Cloning and characterization of a papaya Superman ortholog. Abstract at the Plant Biology 2004 Conference. Lake Buena Vista, Florida. July 24-28, 2004.
  • Weems, Y.S., Randel, R.D., Tatman, S., Lewis, A., Neuendorff, D.A. and Weems, C.W. 2004. Effects of Estrous Synchronization on Response to Nitric Oxide Donors and Endothelin-1 In Vitro. Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators. 74:45-59.
  • Weems, C.W., Weems, Y.S., Lennon, E., Uchima, T., Ong, A., Raney, A., Goto, K. and Zaleski, H. 2004. Is Nitric Oxide luteolytic or antiluteolytic in sheep. Biol. Reprod. Abstract. 440. page 193.


Progress 10/01/02 to 09/30/03

Outputs
No progress to report. This project was initiated on September 15, 2003.

Impacts
No impact to report. This project was initiated on September 15, 2003.

Publications

  • No publications reported this period