Hunter, Wayne B.
Larson, Nicholas R.
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: USDA, National Institute Food and Agriculture, NIFA, award #2015-70016-23028. Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Susan Brown, Kansas State University. Developing an Infrastructure and Product Test Pipeline to Deliver Novel Therapies for Citrus Greening Disease; USDA, NIFA SCRI award #2015-10479. Dr. Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, Dr. Wayne Hunter, Prof. Dr. Sidney Altman. Targeting Microbes to Control Huanglongbing Disease of Citrus; the USDA, NIFA, Western IPM Center award #1588, $29,270: Novel control of the potato zebra chip pathogen and psyllid vector using FANA antisense oligonucleotides gene silencing. GRANT––Hunter, W.B., Qureshi, J.A., and Cano, L. 2022. Wild Lime Psyllid, Leuronota fagarae Transcriptome Sequencing Project. Salivary Glands. PRJNA789049 - SRP351363 (registered 14-Dec-2021). NIFA, USDA, Grant: “Pathogen genetic diversity and effector-driven evolution of virulence” (Grant ID FLA-IRC-005637). Citrus Research Board, CRB (2011–2012): Psyllid Transcriptome. $98 K; the Florida Citrus Production Research Advisory Council (CRDF) (2008–10). Psyllid Draft Genome and Cell Culture $250 K; the Los Alamos National Lab, Bioscience Division, NM. (2013) $50 K (sequencing). The Florida Research Advisory Council; In-house Appropriated Project Number: 6034-22320-007-00-D, ARS, Research Project: IPM Methods for Insect Pests of Orchard Crops, Fort Pierce, FL. This work was supported in part by the USDA-ARS Office of International Research Programs from a grant provided by the USAID Feed-the-Future Program (58-0210-3-012) to W.M.W. and W.B.H.