Transforming Agriculture, Perennially
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Author: Lee R. DeHaan, James A. Anderson, Prabin Bajgain, Andrea Basche, Douglas J. Cattani, Jared Crain, Timothy E. Crews, Christophe David, Olivier Duchene, Jessica Gutknecht, Richard C. Hayes, Fengyi Hu, Jacob M. Jungers, Søren Knudsen, Wenqian Kong, Steve Larson, Per-Olof Lundquist, Guangbin Luo, Allison J. Miller, Pheonah Nabukalu, Matthew T. Newell, Lennart Olsson, Michael Palmgren, Andrew H. Paterson, Valentin D. Picasso, Jesse A. Poland, Erik J. Sacks, Shuwen Wang and Anna Westerbergh
Publication: Science of the Total Environment

Lee DeHaan, Lead Scientist for the Kernza Domestication Program at The Land Institute, and three other Lead Scientists at the organization collaborated with 28 global research partners working with perennial…

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Author: Ebony G Murrell, Konilo R Zio, Nervah E Chérémond & David L Van Tassel
Publication: Journal of Insect Science

The Land Institute’s Crop Protection Ecology and Perennial Oilseeds teams published a paper assessing the most functional methods for managing Eucosma moth (Eucosma giganteana), a pest that specializes in and commonly…

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Author: Fiona H. M. Tang, Timothy E. Crews, Nathaniel A. Brunsell & Giulia Vico
Publication: Plant and Soil

Perennial plants are known to add more biomass to soils when compared to annual plants, as evidenced by the rate of carbon accumulation in grassland ecosystems, but less research has…

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Author: G. Vico, F.H.M. Tang, N.A. Brunsell, T.E. Crews & G.G. Katul
Publication: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Climate-resilient crops are becoming increasingly desired as global climate patterns continue to shift. This paper looks at the ability of perennial grains to adapt to warmer and drier growing conditions…

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Author: Tim Crews & Sienna Polk
Publication: Environment, Development and Sustainability

Authors Tim Crews and Sienna Polk pay homage to influential entomologist and Cornell University professor David Pimentel, who was widely known for his numerous studies on the energetics of traditional…

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Author: Eric Cassetta, Kelsey Peterson, James D. Bever, Yaniv Brandvain, David Van Tassel, Terra K. Lubin, Helen M. Alexander, Diane L. Byers, Sydney Schiffner and Kathryn Turner
Publication: Ecosphere

Featuring five researchers from The Land Institute, this manuscript documents the prevalence of plant pathogens associated with human-induced changes to the planet’s climate and ecosystems, with the perennial prairie plant…

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Author: Alexandra Huddell, Maria Ernfors, Timothy Crews, Giulia Vico & Duncan N.L. Menge
Publication: Science of the Total Environment

Recent research in ecology illustrates the advantage that perennial grains like Kernza (intermediate wheatgrass) possess in reducing nitrate leaching when compared to popular annual grain crops like wheat, as the…

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Author: Virginia M. Moore, Tessa Peters, Brandon Schlautman and E. Charles Brummer
Publication: PNAS Vol. 20 No. 14

Program leads from the Legume and Crop Stewardship Programs at The Land Institute released a paper detailing the ability of diverse cropping systems to address critical environmental issues connected to modern…

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Author: Evan B. Craine, Muhammet Şakiroğlu, Tessa E. Peters, Spencer Barriball & Brandon Schlautman
Publication: Legume Science

Researchers from the Legume and Crop Stewardship Programs at The Land Institute collaborated with Turkish research partners to release this publication documenting the potential of sainfoin, a perennial legume, as…

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Author: Aubrey Streit Krug, Timothy E. Crews and Thomas P. McKenna
Publication: Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change

In the 2022 book Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change, a shift to natural systems agriculture, which is modeled by indigenous agricultural practices and the diverse, perennial mixtures found in prairie ecosystems,…

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Author: Schlautman, B., Bartel, C., Diaz-Garcia, L., Fei, S., Flynn, S., Haramoto, E., Moore, K. and Raman, D.R.
Publication: Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Integrating perennial groundcovers (PGC) — sometimes referred to as living mulches or perennial cover crops — into annual cash-crop systems could address root causes of bare-soil practices that lead to…

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Author: M. Kathryn Turner
Publication: No-till Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture, Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract Under NT management, there are several pathogens that often increase, such as Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium spp., or decrease, such as Gaeumannomyces graminis and Pratylenchus neglectus. While NT farming…

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