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Plant Agriculture Professor Among NSERC Recipients Announced Today
February 8, 2010
The University of Guelph has received more than $2.2 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for five strategic team research projects centred around sustainability.
Representing OAC is Prof. Barry Shelp in the Department of Plant Agriculture. Shelp received a project grant of $431,734 to improve understanding of the mechanisms responsible for physiological disorders in stored apples. This could lead to improved diagnostic technologies for the $164-million-a-year apple industry.
The awards were announced today in London by Gary Goodyear, minister of state (science and technology). Across the country, the government will invest $53.5 million over three years to support 122 research projects at universities.
The U of G projects run the gamut from genomic selection and mapping of Atlantic salmon populations to helping predict critical fire areas. Other recipients of the NSERC strategic project grants include three faculty from the Department of Integrative Biology and one faculty member in the Department of Chemistry.
