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...