Department of Plant Science

New paper out in @NewPhyt "Microbial drivers of root plasticity" w/ Omri Finkel, Gabriel Castrillo, and others @PSUPlantScience @PSUmBiome @huckinstitutes @agsciences doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

#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. @carrijo_crops @PSUPlantScience #ScienceforSuccess

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

College of Agricultural Sciences professor Jonathan Lynch named a top scientist by Research.com. 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. 👏

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

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

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

More great work from our faculty.

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

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/…

Congrats!

#6: With multiple @USDA grants, @LianaBurghardt in @PSUPlantScience @agsciences 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/…

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… @PSUPlantScience @PSUmBiome @huckinstitutes @agsciences

psu.edu/news/academics… @PSUPlantScience @cicciodigioia

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

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 @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467… @PSUPlantScience @PSUmBiome @huckinstitutes @agsciences

I am very happy to share this preprint on herbicide resistance in the weed Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass). Huge collaborative effort with @lkbobadilla @matt_streisfeld and @AidanWShort1 1/n