Provide faculty working in wheat and barley research areas with resources to maintain and replace equipment. Provide students in the College of Agriculture at Montana State University the opportunity to participate and represent MSU at judging contests, annual meeting and other important events by raising funds during MSU's Ag Appreciation Weekend, November 2001 through corporate sponsorships and donations. Showcase agriculture in Montana during Ag Appreciation Weekend with a Community Day where the public is invited to view displays highlighting agriculture in Montana. The program was designed to address in a timely and cost-effective manner, the needs of agriculture producers in Montana with special emphases placed on production crops. Hayden Ferguson, a retired soil scientist is the weekly moderator.
Guests addressing specific, relevant issues appear on each program.
This year's guests include scientists addressing legislative issues impacting agriculture, genetically modified crops, fertilizer prices and alternatives to traditional fertilizers, mountain snow pack and surface water run-off, and the impact of energy deregulation. The weekly format includes two or three topical demonstrations or presentations interjected between calls from viewers. This proposal describes experiments designed to determine the diseases that we might expect to be curtailed by the puroindoline proteins, and to continue ongoing research to directly test transgenic wheat for resistance to fungal diseases important in Montana. Continue testing PIN-producing transgenic wheat for susceptibility to fungal diseases. We will include wheat that has both pinA and pinB, which is currently being generated by traditional breeding methods.