Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping. Full story in Nebraska Today and IANR News.
Coauthors Derek Heeren, Wayne Woldt, and Christopher Neale recently published a high-level journal article on ASABE on unmanned aircraft, A decade of unmanned aerial systems in irrigated agriculture in the Western U.S. Read here.
Peter McCornick, executive director of the Daugherty institute, and his team have received a three-year, $1 million grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development to advance access and education around smallholder farmer irrigation in Africa. Full story in Nebraska Today and IANR News.
Angela Pannier and graduate students, Andrew Hamann and Tyler Kozisek and undergraduate student, Kelly Broad were mentioned by The COE Update for their work published in Gene Therapy News on how transgene expression enhancement was mediated by transcriptional activation of endogenous human MSC genes by the cytosolic glucocorticoid receptor.