Monsanto pledges additional $3 Million for Corn Rootworm Research

In Missouri, Monsanto Company has pledged an additional $3 million to support academic research on corn rootworm. With this funding, the Corn Rootworm Knowledge Research Program, which started in early 2013, extends the program to 2016.

The program provides merit-based awards of up to $250,000 per year (for up to three years) for outstanding research projects that address a number of corn rootworm-related topics, including the economics of corn rootworm management, the development of predictive models, the characterization of resistance, and the development of broad survey methods.

“The extension of this program will further increase the intense research efforts by our best public sector researchers on this challenging and damaging pest,” said program co-chair Dr. Steve Pueppke, Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University.

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