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For more information, contact BBB Senior SDSU iGrow Categorized: 4-H & Youth, South Dakota 4-H, Communications Specialist Jeff Niebaum at 402-898-8550, 800-649-6814 #8550 or jnieCommunity Development, baum@bbbinc.org. BBB and its Foundation Communities BROOKINGS, look forward to awarding the outstanding S.D. - Pennington County 4-H videos and the production teams’ schools. members were among 75 volunteers who placed 1,000 wreaths on the graves of service members laid to rest in the Black Hills National Cemetery as part of the Wreaths Across America Ceremony held this December. "One of the essential elements of 4-H is generosity. When 4-H members help others within What they discover may help plants adapt their community, a service to a changing climate. learning opportunity is Fennell will focus on data generation, often the result," said Peter while Ma will do data mining and modeling Nielson, SDSU Extension 4-H using computational resources available Youth Development Prothrough the state’s collaborative research gram Director. "This service center, Biosystems Networks and Translaproject taught 4-H members tional Research and Extreme Science and about honor and encourEngineering Discovery Environment. The aged them to remember the two SDSU researchers will receive nearly service men and women who $830,000 in total funding to support their sacrificed for this country." work. Pennington County 4-H partCourtesy of iGrow. Matthew Olson, SDSU Extension Allison Miller, an associate professor in nered with the Sturgis Boy 4-H Youth Program Advisor - Pennington County and biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead Scouts, Veterans of Foreign 4-H members place a wreath at a gravestone in the for the NSF project, which also involves Wars Auxiliary and commuBlack Hills National Cemetery. researchers from the University of Misnity members. All the wreaths souri, Missouri State University, Danforth were purchased by families SDSU Extension 4-H Youth Program Advisor Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden of service members. "Pierre Claeyssens - Pennington County. For more information in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics said that to be killed in war is not the worst about 4-H or community service opportuResearch Unit of the U.S. Department of that can happen, to be lost at war is not the nities, contact your local SDSU Extension Agriculture in Geneva, New York. worst that can happen. The worst thing that 4-H Youth Program Advisor. A complete list “This is a very complex study; each can happen is to be forgotten, and so we're can be found at iGrow. - See more at: http:// facet of the project addresses a different trying to remember and make sure that our igrow.org/news/4-h-partners-with-othertype of rootstock-scion interaction,” she fallen service men and women are honored organizations/#sthash.vgrleUsf.dpuf explained. First, the Missouri researchers during the holidays," said Matthew Olson, will find out how three different rootstocks affect variation in the grape scion and how varying amounts of water affect rootstockscion interactions. All will be grown in the same vineyard. The second portion examines different environments in northern and southern California and how they affect two different scions grafted onto two different rootstocks. “The red grape scion are grafted onto a different rootstock than the white grape scion,” Fennell pointed out. 4-H Partners with Other Organizations SDSU Researchers Analyze How Grafting Affects Cold-Hardy Grapes BROOKINGS - Celebrating the holidays with a glass of wine produced from grapes grown in South Dakota—that’s a tradition that South Dakota State University research supports. For more than 20 years, professor Anne Fennell of the agronomy, horticulture and plant science department has been doing research on cold-hardy grapes to help South Dakota grape producers carve out a niche in the American wine industry. Through a new five-year, $4.6 million National Science Foundation project, Fennell and assistant professor Qin Ma, whose expertise is in bioinformatics and computational systems biology, will focus on how grafting affects cold-climate grapes. Grapes are commonly grafted, so the root system is genetically different from the top portion that produces the stems, leaves and fruit, referred to as the scion, explained Fennell. The practice allows producers to graft a desirable variety of grapes onto rootstock that is resistant to pests and diseases. “Though grafting is a standard way of propagating grapes worldwide, we don’t have a good handle on how that rootstock affects the scion,” Fennell noted. However, she pointed out that researchers know that the genotype of the rootstock impacts the characteristics expressed in the scion, known as its phenotype. 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