2020 proso millet variety trial results available on-line
Lincoln, Neb. —Results of University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s 2020 variety trials for proso millet have been compiled and posted on the Nebraska Extension CropWatch website.
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Model predicts gene responses to cold across diverse plant species
Lincoln, Neb. —When Xiaoxi Meng and Zhikai Liang first proposed the idea a couple of years ago, James Schnable was skeptical. To say the least.
“‘Well, you can try, but I don’t think it’s going to work,’” the associate professor of agronomy and horticulture recalled saying to Meng and Liang, then postdoctoral researchers in Schnable’s lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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Researchers find ways to push international research forward, despite COVID-19
Lincoln, Neb. —The details were in place, and an international team of researchers was ready to launch a multi-year study of Kenya’s socio-ecological systems — specifically how globalization and climate change are impacting the country’s native Daasanach pastoralists.
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Panhandle Perspectives: Did You Know? The first Gram-positive bacterial disease in Nebraska occurred in sugarbeets
Lincoln, Neb. —Almost two years ago, I introduced the idea of Nebraska serving as a breeding ground for the discovery of new plant diseases. This has been particularly evident with bacterial diseases, specifically those caused by Gram-positive pathogens.
Graduate research assistant tuition updated
Lincoln, Neb. —The Office of Sponsored Programs is updating its proposal budget template to reflect a set of changes to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s approach to charging graduate research assistants’ tuition remission. The new policies apply to GRAs paid through sponsored research projects or state-aided accounts.
Panhandle Perspectives: Grad student at Panhandle Center working to develop modern crop-breeding tools for proso millet
Lincoln, Neb. —A graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research, Extension, and Education Center in Scottsbluff is in the midst of an ambitious project that he and his advisor hope will produce a set of modern tools for genetic improvement of proso millet.
Nebraska Cover Crop and Soil Health Conference Set for Feb. 11
Lincoln, Neb. —There are many benefits to utilizing cover crops, such as improved soil health and reduced erosion. It’s the details of how and what to do that can present challenges. The Nebraska Cover Crop and Soil Health Conference will provide information to growers who are just getting started with cover crops and to those who are already making cover crops part of their operation.
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Panhandle Perspectives: New chickpea disease study will begin in 2021
Lincoln, Neb. —Interest in chickpea production in Nebraska has ebbed and flowed over the last 20 years. Beginning about 2000 chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, became a popular crop to rotate into production systems, particularly in Box Butte County.
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Panhandle Perspectives: UNL High Plains Agricultural Lab near Sidney is 50 years old
Lincoln, Neb. —As the new year begins, the research plots are quiet at the High Plains Ag Laboratory 6 miles northwest of Sidney. Winter wheat fields are dormant and summer crop fields are awaiting the spring planting season.
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Fortenberry achieves $11M in funding for USDA agriculture research facility at Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb. —Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, was successful in achieving $11.2 million in federal funding for the planning and design of a USDA Agricultural Research Service facility.
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