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Learn MoreChange Taking Root: Toward Perennial Agriculture
Tickets are $10 and limited! Register here. (Scroll down to Aug 1, Change Taking Root) The Land Institute President Fred Iutzi asks "What if our agriculture ...
August 1, 2019 | 5:30 pm
Bosarge Education Center- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Interview with a Plant Scientist: Kathryn Turner, Crop Protection Genetics
What made you decide to focus on Crop Protection Genetics as a line of work? Since high school, I was interested in the diversity in biology, what was going on in the natural world,…
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,…