Congratulations to Kranthi Varala and Celina Gomez for receiving 2023 AgSEED grants. Kranthi Varala’s project is “Improving oil content and composition of Camelina seeds through overexpressing novel regulators of lipid biosynthesis.” Wenjing Guan and Petrus Langenhoven are co-PI’s for this project. Celina Gomez’s project is “Using a Citizen Science Approach to Strengthen Research and Extension[Read More…]
Congratulations to Michael Mickelbart, Kathryn Orvis, and Joshua Widhalm for receiving 2022 AgSEED grants. Michael Mickelbart’s project is “Improving maize water-use efficiency via stomatal traits.” Kathryn Orvis’s project is “Urban Farming Entrepreneurship Program: Providing minority youth entrepreneurship training to increase employment and food access.” Joshua Widhalm’s project is “Investigating chloroplast thievery in photosynthetic sea slugs[Read More…]