Kathryn Turner

Kathryn Turner grew interested in productive grasslands along a meandering journey from her home state of Oklahoma to her college education at Austin College and the University of Minnesota. Practicality and optimism drive her, inspired by a community of researchers dedicated to sustainable agricultural innovation. At The Land Institute, Kathryn explores genetic diversity, management, and monitoring of perennial grain crops to develop disease-resilient cropping systems.

My most perennial trait: Tenacity—it applies to me and the remarkable plants that withstand devastating disease relatively unscathed.

Kathryn Turner’s Research

2005 Intern, 2015-2017 Perennial Wheat postdoc at The Land Institute