🌱 Day 1 of the Controlled Environment Food Production Workshop at Texas A&M University! Students explored hydroponics, aeroponics, and greenhouse-based crop management through hands-on training. The workshop is part of the USDA-supported program.

🌱 Day 1 of the Controlled Environment Food Production Workshop at Texas A&M University ! Students explored hydroponics, aeroponics, and greenhouse-based crop management through hands-on training. The workshop is part of the USDA-supported program. #MicrobiomeLab #SustainableAg #USDA

Day 2 of the Controlled Environment Workshop at Texas A&M University included visits to advanced phenotyping and biomanufacturing facilities. Students explored smart agriculture and therapeutic production systems. Credits: Abdul Latif Khan, Shuyang Zhen #MicrobiomeLab #USDA

Alex Saravia, a recent UH BTEC (Biomanufacturing) graduate, is working as a Summer Lab Intern on a project to measure silicon’s role in plant growth in relation to salinity stress, amid other common stressors. #UHResearch #PlantScience #Biotech

Elysse Nioupin, a summer lab intern, is working on a project developing synthetic fungal communities to enhance drought tolerance in crops and support fungal biosilicification.

Meet Katie King, a UH Biotech student and summer lab intern in the Microbiome & Genomics Lab! She’s working on a project exploring how fungi interact with microplastics in both soil and liquid environments. #UHBiotech #Microplastics #FungalResearch #SummerInterns

Excellent opportunities for undergraduate students to improve their skills in Agri-food production. For more such activities abcc.egr.uh.edu & Khan Lab #USDA #USDAImpact

Pal Rabheru, a sophomore UH BTEC student, assists Elysse Nioupin in measuring photosynthesis in soybean plants 🌱 as part of the Research Experience for Pre-Service Teachers (RE-PST) program. RE-PST students are gaining hands-on research experience this summer!

Teachers in UH’s NSF RET program finished their hands-on training at Khan Lab today! They explored real-world science to enhance STEM teaching in schools 🌿 And thank you to Waqar Ahmad for baking cookies to celebrate the last day! 🍪

Our brilliant MS student, Lucy Owens, presented her work at Soy2025 – the 19th Biennial Conference on Molecular & Cellular Biology of the Soybean, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison – through both a poster and an oral presentation! 🌱

Unlocking in vitro transformation of recalcitrant plants dlvr.it/TMCQgp #plantscience

A fun summer get-together with the Khan Lab crew! Always nice to take a break and enjoy some good food together 🍽️ 😊

Our summer students got hands-on lab experience and gave presentations as part of their final week in the lab 🌿🧪 Great job everyone! 👏

Potato evolved from tomato 9 million years ago. cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Natural History Museum Sandra Knapp University of British Columbia Loren H. Rieseberg Sichuan University Jianquan Liu #CAAS Sanwen Huang @cellcellpress

🌿 We’re collecting photosynthetic data from soybean plants using the LI-COR 6800 system. Monitoring gas exchange to better understand plant physiology under various treatments Nasir Khan #PlantPhysiology #Photosynthesis #SoybeanScience #LiCOR #UofH

Khan Lab 🧪 🌱 🦠 🌤️ New website with some new information and ongoing activities. Stay tune for more updates khan-lab.egr.uh.edu khan-lab.egr.uh.edu

Programmable genome engineering and gene modifications for plant biodesign hubs.li/Q03CjkrM0 August featured review article from #PlantCommunications (Molecular Plant & Plant Communications)

Spray-induced gene silencing boosts functional genomics in symbiotic #fungi 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… 👆 A #Commentary by Ramesh Raju Vetukuri, Luisa Lanfranco & Katie Stevens on this article by Fan et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

Revisiting the cry-for-help hypothesis in plant–microbe interactions dlvr.it/TMfH5q #plantscience

Insecticides made of RNA could offer a safer and more targeted weapon against crop pests. Learn more: scim.ag/41caemw #ScienceMagArchives