How can scientists be sure that their dirt is just as dry as a colleague’s dirt when testing drought effects on roots? Some of our scientists have been looking into that. ...
Shannon King, a PhD student on working on the Roots in Drought grant, won a graduate student competition at a scientific symposium on crop research. Researchers and the students that work in their labs from across the country presented findings online via Zoom for the...
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...
Traveling east of the University of Missouri, you will come across a curvy road called East Campus Drive. After you pass the MU Veterinary Health Center, student dormitories, and parking lots you’ll come to the end of the road and discover a 41,000 square feet,...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Wlzu5PdAE&feature=youtu.be[/embed] On April 22, 2019, Dr. Trupti Joshi’s lab hosted the Bioinformatics Big Data Workshop in Cornell Hall at the University of Missouri. Although most of the 38 individuals attended in person, accommodations were made for those who were off-site with an online interactive video link....
As the demands on the global food supply increase, many commercial farms have switched from natural fertilizers like livestock manure to a synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, ammonium nitrate. Last year, American farmers sprayed more than 6.6 million tons of it. The problem with ammonium nitrate is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBxm4HoQFQ Drought team member Laura Greeley gives us a tour of the growth chambers! What, exactly, are they growing in there?...
In this edition of the Inside Mizzou Podcast, researchers Dr. Bob Sharp, professor in professor in the Division of Plant Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group, and Shannon King, a doctoral student specializing in field biochemistry, sit down with Chancellor Cartwright to discuss...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TlgYXKJh4[/embed] On June 13, 2017, the MU Drought Team had their first harvest of the summer at Bradford Research Center. A 17-person team, organized by graduate student Shannon King, helped dig up and remove hundreds of roots from the field, preserve them in liquid nitrogen, and...