Awards and Grants

From Plant Press, Vol. 10, No. 1 from January 2007.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded grants to Vicki Funk ($18,000) and Paul Peterson ($20,000) to review the taxonomy, nomenclature, and attributes of the

Asteraceae (Funk) and Poaceae (Peterson) of the U.S. and its Territories contained within the PLANTS database <http://plants.usda.gov>.

Paul Peterson received a grant from the National Geographic Society (NGS) for $20,600, beginning in FY2007, to support the project, "Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Evolution of the Muhlenbergiinae (Poaceae)." The grant will cover two collection trips, one to Peru and Bolivia and the other to Mexico, and it will also support some of the DNA sequencing fees.