Council for Burley Tobacco
The Council for Burley Tobacco invests check-off funds in research to benefit burley growers. All final reports are posted as PDF documents. Click on the links below to read the progress reports and complete reports.
2014 GRANT PROJECTS
Evaluation of Chemical Topping in Burley Tobacco
Researcher: Tony Brannon, MSU
Development of pale yellow dark burley: An additional approach to reducing TSNAs in Kentucky Burley.
Researcher: Colin Fisher, UK
Sample Preparation for TSNA Analysis
Researcher: Anne Jack, KTRDC
The Effects of Cytokinin Application on the Accumulation of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines
Researcher: Anne Jack, KTRDC
Researcher: Anne Jack, KTRDC
Evaluation of the Efficacy of HP400 in Reducing TSNAs
Researcher: Anne Jack, KTRDC
Researcher: Shengming Yang, UK
The DNA Sequence of the Burley Tobacco Genome
Researcher: David Zaitlin, KTRDC