Plant Science Tag

June 3, 2020 In What's New By Sydney Schack

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Field Research

As the world tentatively begins to reopen from a three-month long COVID-19 quarantine, some people are hopeful life can jump back to normal. However, in the agriculture research realm, the setbacks of COVID-19 will have consequences long surpassing quarantine. [caption id="attachment_1046" align="alignleft" width="708"] Researchers plant flags...

October 11, 2019 In What's New By Marlee Baldridge

VIDEO: Harvest Season for the Roots in Drought Grant

https://youtu.be/Gi_msBaORoQ Like all good science, the Roots in Drought experiment needs to be replicable. This is the second harvest in this project, and Shannon King hopes to use the data collected to reaffirm the candidate selection from last year's harvest season. Photo by Roman Synkevych on Unsplash...

November 17, 2018 In What's New By Riley Steinbrecher

Meet Nick Baert

Nick Baert joined the MU Drought Team in January 2018, specializing in plant stress biology with a focus on studying root systems at the genetic level. This year, he's spent most of his time identifying specific gene mutations among different strains of corn and analyzing...