A “Breakthrough” story and video interview on research conducted by Drs. Thomas Lübberstedt and Siddique Aboobucker and graduate student Liming Zhou is featured on the Foundation for Food and Agriculture […]
August 29, 2023 AMES, Iowa – Professor and plant breeder Asheesh K. (Danny) Singh has been named to the George Sprague Professorship in Agronomy by the Department of Agronomy in […]
August 22, 2023 – Walter Suza wants to do what George Washington Carver did — feed the hungry. And Suza, adjunct associate professor in Iowa State University’s Department of Agronomy […]
August 14, 2023 – Jianming Yu will become the fourth director of the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding at Iowa State University, effective Aug. 16. He will replace […]
July 31, 2023- Siddique Aboobucker, Agronomy, looking at the scores for male fertility in a test plot for haploid maize at the Agronomy Research Farm, Boone, Iowa. Photo by Nazmul […]
July 27, 2023 AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University professor Thomas Lübberstedt assumed the role of president of the National Association of Plant Breeders at the organization’s annual meeting, July 16-20, in […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced today it is awarding more than $1.8 million to support the work of the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative […]
Choosing the best crop variety to maximize yield and profitability while still staying within budget is vital to any farm, whether its 100 acres or 100,000. It is also a […]
The angle of the leaves on a corn stalk directly affects the plant’s ability to soak up the summer sun needed for photosynthesis. Breeders have developed various corn hybrids with […]
A multidisciplinary project at Iowa State University is harnessing engineering to solve agronomic challenges, enlisting undergraduates to develop an innovative research chamber to study soybeans’ responses in the field to […]
Iowa State University plant breeders and researchers are working to develop a new crop suited for the plant-based protein market. The first step is developing new varieties of mung bean, […]
The Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University, in partnership with the Midwest USDA-ARS, is pleased to host the National Plant Breeders Association’s 2022 Annual Meeting. The Conference will be […]