European corn borer resistance to transgenic Bt corn in Minnesota
Fei Yang
The European corn borer (ECB), ostrinia nubilalis, is a significant pest of corn in North America, and once caused substantial yield losses and economic damage.
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Efficacy of ISTs in corn for managing corn rootworm complex
Fei Yang
The western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, and the northern corn rootworm (NCR), Diabrotica barberi Smith & Lawrence (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) stand as the primary belowground insect pests of corn in Minnesota,
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Developing biocontrol against corn pathogens
Devanshi Khokhani
Nitrogen is the most widely used and often a limiting macronutrient in corn production. Unlike legumes that obtain fixed nitrogen from rhizobia residing inside the root nodules,
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Variability in oil composition in maize
Understanding the variation that exists in oil characteristics is an important step in determining the possibility of developing higher value products such as renewable food, fuel, plastics, or other products.
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Farmable vegetative buffers
John Baker
The objective of our research over the three years of support from the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council (MCRPC) was to develop and test management practices to establish perennial vegetative buffers that can sustain row-crop production while adhering to the Minnesota Buffer Law mandates.
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Reducing nitrogen losses in a changing climate
Springs have gotten wetter and summers drier for the past decade or more—Griffis is focused on how this impacts farming. Under wetter and warmer conditions, the farmer’s nitrogen use efficiency is going to drop because you are going to have more unintended losses (of nitrogen) to the atmosphere in the form of nitrous oxide, according to Griffis.
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Phenomics tools for corn breeding and management decisions
Measuring phenotypes is at the core of corn breeding and management recommendation practices. Due to the time and labor intensive nature of manually phenotyping plants, the data used for these efforts has typically focused only on end of season traits such as plant height, ear height, and yield.
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Hyper-thermostable enzyme (Lactonases) for use as microbial biocontrol agents for plant diseases (Year 6)
Many bacterial pathogens infect crop plants, representing major economic burdens. This also limits our ability to feed the world’s populations. Current methods for controlling plant diseases due to bacterial infection have had limited success, in part due to bacterial resistance and specificity.
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Hyperthermostable Enzyme (lactonases) for use as Microbial Biocontrol Agents for Plant Diseases
Numerous bacterial pathogens infect crop plants, representing major economic burdens, and limit our ability to feed the world’s populations. Current methods for controlling plant diseases due to bacterial infection have had limited success, in part due to bacterial resistance and specificity.
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