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The Land Institute’s work advances research and agricultural scientific knowledge and is conducted in an innovative yet rigorous professional context. Explore our findings and ideas via articles authored or co-authored by members of our staff and published in research and peer-reviewed journals.

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Author: Jerry D. Glover, John P. Reganold
Publication: Science and Technology, (Winter 2010), pp 41-47.

Perennial versions of our major grain crops would address many of the environmental limitations of annuals while helping to feed an increasingly hungry planet. Download PDF

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Author: T.S. Cox, D.L. Van Tassel, C.M. Cox, L.R. DeHaan
Publication: "Crop & Pasture Science," July 2010

Abstract: Annual cereal, legume and oilseed crops remain staples of the global food supply. Because most annual crops have less extensive, shorter-lived root systems than do perennial species, with a…

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Author: Jerry D. Glover,John P. Reganold, L. W. Bell,J. Borevitz, E. C. Brummer, E. S. Buckler, C. M. Cox, T. S. Cox, T. E. Crews, S. W. Culman, L. R. DeHaan, D. Eriksson, B. S. Gill, J. Holland, F. Hu, B. S. Hulke, A. M. H. Ibrahim, W. Jackson, S. S. Jones, S. C. Murray, A. H. Paterson, E. Ploschuk, E. J. Sacks, S. Snapp, D. Tao, D. L. Van Tassel, L. J. Wade, D. L. Wyse, Y. Xu
Publication: Science, 25 June 2010, Vol. 328 pp. 1638-1639

Perennial grains hold promise, especially for marginal landscapes or with limited resources where annual versions struggle. Access SummaryAccess Full Text

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Author: David Van Tassel, Lee R. DeHaan, Thomas S. Cox
Publication: Evolutionary Applications, doi:10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00132.x.

Perennial grain crops do not exist because they could not have evolved under the original set of conditions; however, they can be deliberately developed today through artificial phenotypic and genotypic…

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Author: Jerry Glover
Publication: Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment: doi:10.1016/j.agee.2010.01.014

Humanity’s unprecedented global demand for farm products poses one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem function. This demand will almost certainly increase as the human population continues…

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Author: T.S. Cox
Publication: "Plant breeding and farmer participation" 2009, Edited by S. Ceccarelli; E.P. Guimar; E. Weltizien, published by U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, pp 1-26.

If the story of modern humans from the beginning to the present day could be compressed into a feature-length movie, the era of crop domestication would occupy a scene approximately…

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Author: Tianna DuPont, Steve W. Culman, Howard Ferris, Daniel H. Buckley, Jerry D. Glover
Publication: Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment: doi:10.1016/j.agee.2009.12.021

Landscape conversion to agricultural use historically began with tillage, a practice now known to dramatically and often negatively affect soil properties and ecosystem processes in grassland dominated ecosystems. However, converted…

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Author: S W Culman, S T DuPont, J D Glover, D H Buckley, G W Fick, H Ferris, T E Crews
Publication: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, (2009), doi:10.1016/j.agee.2009.11.008

Abstract: Soil ecosystem properties and processes which simultaneously maintain native fertility and sustain plant yields are of principal interest in sustainable agriculture. Native prairies in Kansas are relevant in this…

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Author: Jerry Glover, Steve Culman, Tianna DuPont, Whitney Broussard, Lauren Young, Margaret Mangan, John Mai, Timothy Crews, Lee DeHaan, Daniel Buckley, Howard Ferris, Eugene Turner, Heather Reynolds, Donald Wyse
Publication: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, (2009), doi:10.1016/j.agee.2009.11.001.

Perennial vegetation can provide multiple ecosystem services essential for sustainable production more effectively than production systems based on annual crops. However, the ability of annually harvested, unfertilized perennial systems to…

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Author: Lee R DeHaan, Sanford Weisberg, David Tilman, Dario Fornarain
Publication: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. (2009), doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2009.10.017.

Bicultures including adapted legumes so far appear to be an adequate starting point for plant breeding programs targeting low input perennial production systems. As the science develops, the species developed…

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Author: Wes Jackson
Publication: Conservation Biology, 2008, Vol 22, No. 6, pp 1372-1381.

Conn Nugent, Wes Jackson, David W. Orr, Norman L. Christensen, Jr., and Courtney White each contributed to “Five articles on American land use, agriculture, climate change, forestry and ranching.” Open a PDF of…

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Author: Emma Marris
Publication: Nature, December 4, 2008, pp 563-568.

This prestigious weekly international journal named Land Institute soil scientist Jerry Glover “one of five crop researchers who could change the world.” Glover and the other four ambitious scientists in…

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