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Cahoon named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Cahoon named fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Biochemistry/Center for Plant Science Innovation/Honors/Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources/Plant Science/

Edgar Cahoon with camelina

With $12M grant, Husker-led team exploiting oilseeds’ potential in biofuels, bioproducts

Biochemistry/Climate Change/Plant Science/

Marc Libault in greenhouse

Husker scientist leads effort to understand, adapt legume nitrogen conversion

Center for Plant Science Innovation/Grand Challenges/Plant Science/

Nebraska team merges machine learning, plant genetics to maximize sorghum potential

Agriculture/Agronomy and Horticulture/Plant Science/

Stalk-worn sensor to measure crops’ water use

Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources/Agriculture/Agronomy and Horticulture/Crop Yields/Plant Science/

Award boosts Roston’s work to pave the way for freeze-tolerant crops

Biochemistry/CAREER/Plant Science/

Sequenced genome of ancient crop could raise yields

Agriculture/Agronomy and Horticulture/Plant Science/

Experiments underscore overlooked aspect of defending corn from pest

Agriculture/Entomology/Plant Science/

Genes to proteins: Efforts enriching nutrition of popcorn, sorghum

Agronomy and Horticulture/Health/Plant Science/

Nebraska plant biologist digs deeper into the alliance between soybeans, soil bacteria

CAREER/Plant Science/

International team makes rare discovery of new fatty acids

Biochemistry/Materials Science/Plant Science/

Nebraska’s Center for Plant Science Innovation is transforming agriculture

Agriculture/Agronomy and Horticulture/Plant Science/

360 degrees, 180 seconds: New technique speeds analysis of crop traits

Agriculture/Biological Systems Engineering/Plant Science/

Study: Climate effects on ag yields vary by location, crop

Agriculture/Climate Change/Plant Science/

Team explores economic potential of sweet sorghum ethanol

Agricultural Economics/Agronomy and Horticulture/Plant Science/

Nebraska-led project explores solutions to vitamin deficiency in Africa

Biochemistry/Biotechnology/Plant Science/

Nebraska Research Initiative boosts university’s competitiveness

In the News/Materials Science/Plant Science/

University leads research into heat-tolerant crops

Agriculture/Food/Energy/Water/Plant Science/

Plant scientists aim to turn sorghum into jet fuel

Agronomy and Horticulture/Biochemistry/Plant Science/

Study describes spread of weed’s resistance to herbicide

Agriculture/Food/Energy/Water/Plant Science/

Blast off: Insights could combat rice-infecting fungus

Agriculture/Food Security/Plant Science/

Cahoon, Schachtman named fellows of the American Society of Plant Biologists

Biology/Honors/Plant Science/

Van Etten looks back on half-century of science

Biology/Plant Science/

Nebraska part of national research initiative to improve cover crops

Agriculture/Food/Energy/Water/Plant Science/

Discovery could bolster traits of soybeans, other crops

Project aims to boost global wheat yields

Agriculture/Agronomy and Horticulture/Plant Science/

$1.3M NIH grant to aid study of plants’ viral defense

Plant Science/Virology/

NIC system advances analysis of corn

Agriculture/Nebraska Innovation Campus/Plant Science/

Plants’ surprising guard against freezing: acid

Biochemistry/Biology/Plant Science/

UNL earns $20M to research ways to improve crop productivity

Agriculture/EPSCoR/Genomics/Plant Science/

NSF grant to support development of new phenotyping instrument

Nebraska Innovation Campus/Plant Phenotyping/Plant Science/

UNL researchers identify target of disease-causing plant pathogens

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