IMBA has approximately one million dollars a year that is invested to support from five to nine new projects.  Projects that have been funded within the past three years are in various stages of completion, from initiation to completing the final report on the research. This listing contains an account of active projects, the names of investigators and an abstract on each project.

• Project 2007-1:
  Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Soy Foods for Consumers, Markets and Public Policy
  by Wanki Moon and Siva K. Balasubramanian, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-2:
  Genomic Evaluation of the Defense Response of Maize (zea mays L.) against Herbivory by the Western Corn Rootworm
  by Martin O. Bohn, University of Illinois; Georgia L. Davis, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-3:
  Discovery and Modification of Photomorphogenic Regulation in Maize
  by Matthew E. Hudson, University of Illinois
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-4:
  Systematically Assigning Gene Functions in Soybean Employing RNAi Technology
  by Zhanyuan Zhang, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-5:
  Exploring the Mechanism of Soybean Oil Deposition and Increasing Soybean Oil Content Through Genetic Engineering
  by Yun Lin, Lila O. Vodkin, and Jack M. Widholm, University of Illinois
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-6:
  Expression of Anti-Nematode Proteins in Transgenic Soybean to Control Soybean Cyst Nematode
  by Christopher G. Taylor, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-7:
  Trait Based Modeling of GM Crop Adoption
  by Jeremy Foltz, Bradford Barham, and Pilar Useche, University of Wisconsin
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-8:
  Development of Soybean Germplasm With Designed Resistance to Soybean Rust and Other Diseases
  by James T. English and Francis J. Schmidt, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-9:
  Developing Functional Food Products from Plant Biotechnologies
  by Monty Kerley and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2007-10:
  Entrepreneurial and Organizational Responses to Biotechnology Innovation
  by Peter G. Klein, Michael E. Sykuta, Michael L. Cook, and David J. O'Brien, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  

• Project 2006-1:
  Metabolomic Analysis of Soybean Nematode Interactions: A Prelude to Metabolic Engineering for Nematode Resistance
  by Kris N. Lambert and Vera Lozovaya, University of Illinois
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2006-2:
  Development of Corn/Soy Plastic Composites: Phase II
  by Richard C. Larock and Paul W. Gallagher, Iowa State University
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2006-3:
  Systematically Assigning Gene Functions in Soybean Employing RNAi Technology
  by Zhanyuan Zhang, University of Missouri
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2006-4:
  Engineering Soybean for Enhanced Sulfur Amino Acid Content
  by Hari Krishnan, University of Missouri; Joseph Jez, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2006-5:
  Adaptation of a Gene Switch Technology for use in Soybean Seed
  by Terry Woodford-Thomas, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2006-6:
  Genomic Evaluation of the Defense Response of Maize Against Herbivory by the Western Corn Rootworm
  by Martin Bohn, University of Illinois; Georgia Davis and Thomas L. Clark, University of Missouri
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2006-7:
  Maximizing the Value of Corn Biotechnologies in Ethanol Production
  by Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri; Martha Schlicher, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2006-8:
  Analytical Tools for Production of Non-Food Protein Corn
  by Roger Ginder, Corinne Langinier, Darren Jarboe, and Lawrence Johnson, Iowa State University
  Progress Report
  
  
• Project 2006-9:
  Innovation & Venture Formation In Agricultural Biotechnology
  by Jake Halliday and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri
  Progress Report

• Project 2005-1:
  Genetic Enhancement of the Antioxidant Content of Soybean Oil for Improved Food Processing, Lubricant, and Nutraceutical Properties
  by Edgar B. Cahoon, Plant Genetics Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Danforth Plant Science Center
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-2:
  Identification of Key Defense Genes for Resistance to Phytopthora Stem & Root Rot Through Gene Silencing
  by Terrence L. Graham and Lian-mei Graham, Ohio State University; Oliver Yu, Danforth Plant Science Center
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-3:
  Developing Targeted Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode in Soybean
  by Melissa G. Mitchum, University of Missouri; Khalid Meksem, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-4:
  Breeding for Enhanced Molecular Farming in Maize Seeds
  by Stephen P. Moose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-5:
  Development of Corn/Soy Plastic Composites
  by Richard C. Larock and Paul W. Gallagher, Iowa State University
  Project 2005-5 is continued under 2006-2. To review the final report, please see 2006-2.
  
  
• Project 2005-6:
  Compliance Costs of Regulation in the Development & Adoption of Biotech Crops
  by Julian Alston and Kent Bradford, University of California-Davis; Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-7:
  AgBioForum: Informing the Public Debate on Agrifood Biotechnology
  by Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-8:
  Agricultural Biotechnology, CAFTA, and the Development of Differentiated Product Channels
  by Hamish R. Gow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Centrec Consulting Group, LLC
  
  
• Project 2005-9:
  Novel Crop Biotechnologies & the US Ethanol Industry
  by Joseph L. Parcell, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, and James D. Kaufman, University of Missouri
  Final Report
  
  
• Project 2005-10:
  Evaluating Outcomes of IMBA Research
  by Donald Holt and Marilyn Nash, University of Illinois-Urbana
  Final Report