Nov 15, 2024
“Soil degradation and crop yield declines persist 5 years after pipeline installations” with Theresa Brehm.
Underground pipeline installations are crucial for energy supply, helping to meet rising demand. However, these installations can significantly impact agricultural lands due to soil excavation, heavy machinery...
Oct 31, 2024
“Invasive sorghum aphid: A decade of research on deciphering plant resistance mechanisms and novel approaches in breeding for sorghum resistance to aphids” with Drs. Somashekhar Punnuri, Karen Harris-Shultz, Joseph Knoll, and Xinzhi Ni.
Sorghum is an important crop in the United States, grown for grain, forage and...
Oct 18, 2024
“Upscaling soil moisture from point scale to field scale: towards a general model” with Dr. Tyson Ochsner
Field scale soil moisture measurements can be difficult to attain. Point scale data can be too small to give field scale advice, and data gathered from satellites often lack important specificity. In this...
Oct 4, 2024
“Mixing things up! Identifying early diversity benefits and facilitating the development of improved variety mixtures with high throughput field phenotyping” with Flavian Tschurr and Corina Oppliger.
With increasing yield instability in monocropping systems due to diseases, pests or climatic factors, crop...
Sep 20, 2024
“The effects of different biochar-dairy manure co-composts on soil moisture and nutrients retention, greenhouse gas emissions, and tomato productivity; observations from a soil column experiment” with Dr. Touyee Thao.
Increasing food production needs can sometimes put a strain on the environment. Waste from crop and...