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The Land Institute’s Ecosphere Studies team and collaborators share their foundational knowledge and perennial inquiry in a new educational collection…
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Dear Friends, It has been forty years since the first publication of Wes Jackson’s visionary and influential book New Roots…
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What got you interested in your field of research? I was taking a plant breeding and genetics my senior year…
Read More about Interview with Spencer BarriballPerennial 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…
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…
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,…
