Projects

A scientific instrument, possibly a Li-6400XT portable photosynthesis system, is mounted on a tripod amidst a corn plant in a greenhouse setting.

Photosynthesis in sorghum under non-stress, cold and drought stress

Carbon assimilation through photosynthesis is the basis of crop productivity. However, increases in crop yield achieved in the last 50 years have not been attributed to changes in photosynthetic capacity.

A detailed diagram illustrates the parts of a sorghum plant, labeling elements such as leaf angle, plant height, exertion, number of internodes, and stem circumference, with additional inset images showing seed number and tillers.

Plant architecture

Several hormones are involved in the biochemical and physiological responses that determine plant architecture characteristics highly correlated with biomass yield such as plant height, leaf angle, stem diameter, tillering, number

RESEARCH-PGR: A Genome-level Approach to Balancing the Vitamin Content of Maize Grain

This collaborative research project is directed at identifying a subset of the ~40,000 genes in the corn genome that work together to determine the levels of five essential and limiting

FACT: International workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems

PI – Soumik Sarkar; Co-PI – Arti Singh, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Asheesh Singh The proposers in collaboration with Prof. Masayuki Hirafuji & team at the University of Tokyo, are organizing the

A person wearing a red and white cap and a striped shirt kneels in a field of green leafy plants, examining one of the plants.

Breeding of plant based protein crops (mung bean and urd bean) using USDA germplasm

Mungbean (Vigna radiata) L. Wilczek and Urdbean (Vigna mungo) are important pulse crops worldwide. They are commonly referred to as green gram and black gram. They were produced in America

RII Track-2 FEC: Genome Engineering to Sustain Crop Improvement (GETSCI)

Improved and practical crop breeding tools are required to meet the increasing demands of a growing global population and to overcome the sudden and variable stresses, made worse, by climate

Forecast and Assessment of Cropping sysTemS (FACTS; 2015-present)

FACTS is an ongoing project developed to forecast and evaluate real-time soil-crop dynamics in specific ISU fields. Predictions and measurements will be frequently updated as new information becomes available during

Corn management following cereal rye cover crop with strip tillage and starter N fertilization (2018-2020)

Issue Cover crops are a conservation practice that can have tremendous benefits for improving soil health and reducing nutrient losses. There is limited research available on management practices that provide

Improving cereal rye cover crop BMPs to increase adoption of cover crops by Iowa farmers (2018-2020)

Issue The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy (INRS) calls for cover crop implementation on over 12 million acres, which equates to every other field. Despite numerous environmental benefits associated with cover

A group of approximately 20-25 people stands in a grassy field, attentive to a speaker in the foreground. The field extends into the background, with trees and a building visible on the horizon.

Redefining the field edge (2018-2021)

This project seeks to reevaluate the traditional “field edge,” investigating the long-term productivity and profitability of in-field low lying depressional areas. While traditionally planted to agricultural row crops, in the majority of years these marginal

Putting It All Together: An Innovative Approach to Increasing Iowa’s Conservation Infrastructure (2018-2021)

The goal of this project is to positively change the skill sets and attitudes of professional agronomists, farmers and agricultural students to accelerate the adoption of agricultural systems that build soil

Corn Stand Reduction and Green Snap (2019-2021)

Stand Reduction: National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) has conducted research for hail adjusting loss instructions for corn that include assessing losses from stand reduction/loss, defoliation, direct damage to stems and

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