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REGISTER NOW: Prairie Festival, September 27-29, 2019
The Land Institute's annual Prairie Festival will be held September 27-29, 2019 in Salina, KS. This year's keynote speaker is author and environmentalist, Bill McKibben, and the featured musician is Eliza Gilkyson.
September 27, 2019 | 8:00 am
The Land Institute
Interview with a Plant Scientist: Ebony Murrell, Crop Protection Ecologist
What brought you to The Land Institute (TLI)? The job description brought me here. I didn’t really start researching agroecology until I was a post doc. I’d never taken any agricultural classes, so I never…
Scientific Publications
Benefits of Native Mycorrhizal Amendments to Perennial Agroecosystems Increases with Field Inoculation Density
Perennial polyculture cropping systems are a novel agroecological approach used to mirror some of the ecological benefits provided by native perennial ecosystems including increased carbon and nitrogen storage, more stable…
Integrating multipurpose perennial grains crops in Western European farming systems
Western European agriculture is largely defined by the high level of productivity of its cereal grain production. Such productivity is largely a result of farm specialization and intensification. This approach…
Genome mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling domestication traits of intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium)
Abstract Allohexaploid (2n = 6x = 42) intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium), abbreviated IWG, is an outcrossing perennial grass belonging to the tertiary gene pool of wheat. Perenniality would be valuable option for grain production,…