Nebraska Specialty Crop Conference postponed to November 2021

Lincoln, Neb. —The Inaugural Nebraska Specialty Crop Conference set to take place virtually in February has been postponed until November 9-10, 2021.

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IANR Graduate Student Celebration week to be held Dec. 1-4

Lincoln, Neb. —The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources has designated Dec. 1-4, 2020 as Graduate Student Celebration Week. The weeklong celebrates aims to show gratitude towards our graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars for their dedication to research and education.

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Team IDs differences in gene-related activity between ancient, modern corn

Lincoln, Neb. —Roughly 9,000 years ago, Native American farmers in southern Mexico began domesticating teosinte, the wild ancestor of modern corn.

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Report: UNL Ranked Among Top 20 in Agricultural Sciences in U.S.

Lincoln, Neb. —The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is among the top 20 U.S. institutions for academic research in the field of agricultural sciences, according to the 2021 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities Subject Rankings. 

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James Schnable recognized for outstanding paper

Lincoln, Neb. —A paper by Dr. James Schnable, Agronomy & Horticulture, has been selected as the 2020 Outstanding Paper by The Plant Phenome Journal.

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Poll: Ag remains a driver of economic well-being for most rural Nebraskans

Lincoln, Neb. —Most rural Nebraskans believe that agriculture is a driver of economic well-being in their households, communities or both, according to the 2020 Nebraska Rural Poll.

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Bartelt-Hunt searching sewage for COVID-19

Lincoln, Neb. —Every Thursday morning, before most of campus is awake, University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and a small team of graduate students and building systems personnel can be found at various campus sites, lifting manhole covers and collecting sewage samples.

They’re on the hunt for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Team IDs compound, gene essential to fungal infiltration of rice plant

Lincoln, Neb. —After paragliding in on a breeze, a spore released by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae settles onto the leaf of an unlucky rice plant.

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Husker researchers linking cattle behavior to efficient beef production

Lincoln, Neb. —Range cattle spend most of their time grazing, ruminating, resting and watering. Using collars fitted with GPS and accelerometers, technology similar to that found in a Fitbit that collects data on movement patterns, University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are tracking the movements and behavioral patterns of beef cattle and how they link to efficient beef production systems.

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