<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/2021/usda-grant-urban-pollinator-orchards-miller-struttmann.php" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>11/19/2021 02:23:39 PM</pubDate><title>Webster University Part of USDA Grant to Study Pollination in Urban Orchards</title><description>A team of researchers from six institutions across the St. Louis region will spend the next three years studying ways to maximize pollination in urban and suburban orchards with a new $633,000 grant from the USDA. Scientists including Nicole Miller-Struttmann of Webster University and others from UMSL, the Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis University, Maryville University and the Missouri Botanical Garden are collaborating on the three-year project.</description><author/><image><img src="/images/browning-hall-30-749x474.jpg" alt="Browning Hall"/></image><tags><tag>research</tag></tags></item>