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Sound Art Performance by Julianne Warren
Julianne Lutz Warren is a freelance scholar, storyteller, visiting scholar at The Land Institute, and community activist. Join her in a welcoming into a surround-sound event to listen to extinct voices for what hope might mean in crisis.
January 30, 2020 | 12:00 pm
Fitzpatrick Auditorium at Kansas Wesleyan University
Interview with a Plant Scientist: Pheonah Nabukalu, PhD, Research Associate for Perennial Sorghum
What brought you to The Land Institute (TLI)? I came to The Land Institute in 2013 for a postdoctoral research position after graduating with my PhD in plant breeding from Louisiana State University (LSU). …
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,…