#6: With multiple Dept. of Agriculture grants, Dr. Liana T Burghardt in Department of Plant Science Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences leads a team studying plants and rhizobial bacteria, with the long-term goal of boosting forage and crop production while reducing environmental impacts of fertilizer use. psu.edu/news/research/…

Novel tool informs land use and nutrient control in troubled waters psu.ag/3Rvz2kS

Happy New Year 🎆 Our first paper of 2024 is online now -> Effects of plant tissue permeability on pathogen population bottlenecks -> Just out in Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Department of Plant Science One Health Microbiome Center Huck Institutes Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

I am very happy to share this preprint on herbicide resistance in the weed Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass). Huge collaborative effort with Lucas K Bobadilla - @lkbobadilla.bsky.social Matt Streisfeld and Aidan W. Short 1/n

New paper from the lab on the Effects of #intercropping on #soil #microbial properties. Led by the amazing grad student Luana Bresciani doi.org/10.1016/j.apso… Department of Plant Science One Health Microbiome Center Huck Institutes Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

psu.edu/news/academics… Department of Plant Science Francesco Di Gioia

Congratulations to our faculty member .Siela Maximova on being recognized with Institute of Energy and the Environment Awards psu.edu/news/institute…

🥳Congratulations to our very own Dr. Siela Maximova (Siela Maximova) and Dr. Estelle Couradeau (Estelle Couradeau), who received the "Research Guidance Award" from the IEE at Penn State! They were recognized for their outstanding mentorship of pre-tenured or non-tenured faculty.

Congrats!

Common plant could help reduce food insecurity, researchers find Fast-growing aquatic fern has the futritional content to serve as a potentially vital food source after a catastrophe and could be relevant now psu.edu/news/research/…

More great work from our faculty.

Type of plastic film on high tunnels can filter sunlight, influence plant growth. #PlantScience #hightunnel psu.edu/news/research/…

Gruner veltliner white wine the new totast of Pennsylvania? #Research #Viticulture #PlantScience psu.edu/news/research/…

NSF grant to fund research on genetics and physiology of corn kernel development - Dr. Chopra psu.edu/news/research/…

Congrats to our student Charles Colvin on being selected as a recipient of the Fred Winter Memorial Award for Excellence in Horticulture. Well deserved. 👏

College of Agricultural Sciences professor Jonathan Lynch named a top scientist by Research.com. psu.edu/news/research/…

Dept of Plant Science researchers compile Cacao Gene Atlas to help plant breeders boost chocolate tree. psu.edu/news/research/…

#UpdatefromtheField from Daniela Carrijo at Penn State, where much of the state has seen extreme drought early in the season and #soybeans are now approaching critical stages of pod formation and seed filling. Daniela Carrijo Department of Plant Science #ScienceforSuccess

New paper out in New Phytologist "Microbial drivers of root plasticity" w/ Omri Finkel, Gabriel Castrillo, and others Department of Plant Science One Health Microbiome Center Huck Institutes Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…