The Diverse Corn Belt project is pleased to announce the open-access publication of “‘Safer to Plant Corn and Beans?’ Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt” in Agriculture and Human Values. Led by former HLA postdoc, Rebecca Traldi, the paper includes several HLA co-authors: Lauren Asprooth, Emily Usher, Elizabeth Maynard, Aaron…Read more about New Publication from the Diverse Corn Belt Team[Read More]
Drs. Mearaj Shaikh and Josh Widhalm published a paper with Dr. Mike Mickelbart and HLA alum Dr. Chan Yul Yoo in Plant Direct titled “Transcriptional repression of GTL1 under water-deficit stress promotes anthocyanin biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance.” Dr. Yoo received his PhD in 2011 working with Dr. Mike Hasegawa. He is currently an assistant professor of biology…Read more about New Publication from Drs. Shaikh, Widhalm, Mickelbart and Colleagues[Read More]
Purdue Agriculture Communication featured a story on the Varala Lab’s recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Purdue-USDA team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits. The story has also been featured in the US Department of Energy’s University and Stakeholder News.
Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Aaron Patton and co-authors published paper in Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management titled “A survey of ethofumesate resistant annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on US golf courses.” In December last year, Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Cale Bigelow, Stephen Meyers, Aaron Patton and co-authors published a paper in Weed Technology titled “Ethofumesate-resistant annual…Read more about Recent Papers from Turfgrass Researchers[Read More]
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on…Read more about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[Read More]
The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin…Read more about Emmanuel Cooper and Colleagues Publish Sweetpotato Research[Read More]
Members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab and the Specialty Crops IPM Lab published their collaborative research in HortTechnology this month. The team investigated the ability of black soldier fly larvae to reduce weed seed emergence in composts created from various substrates. Thank you to all those who helped with this project, including the…Read more about Meyers and Ingwell Labs Publish New Research Article[Read More]
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