The Jacob Shur Research Facility

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The Jacob Shur Research Facility Providing
Greenhouse and Plant Tissue Culture Facilities
for the Agricultural and Forest Industries of
Maine
-Potato testing and variety development -Potato
genomics -White pine embryogenesis -Horticultural
variety development
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Phase II Project Jellison

• Objective
  
  Provide general supervision and obtain secure
  funding for the Shur Research Facility, an
  off-campus complex of laboratory, tissue
  culturing and greenhouse facilities recently
  donated to the University of Maine

• Results
  
  -Three years of university base funding
  negotiated
  -One NSF proposal
  submitted
  -One industrial contract
  obtained, indirect costs to be returned to the
  facility
  
  -Additional
  capabilities in hydroponics and embryogenesis
  being developed