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Category: Intermediate Wheatgrass

Author: Thomas P. McKenna, Liz Koziol, Jared Crain, Timothy E. Crews, Benjamin A. Sikes, Lee R. DeHaan & James D. Bever
Publication: Plants People Planet

A collaborative research paper between The Land Institute’s Lee DeHaan, Tim Crews, and colleagues at the Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research  showed that Kernza breeding at The…

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Author: Hannah Stoll, Prabin Bajgain & James Anderson
Publication: Crop Science

Research collaborators at the University of Minnesota conducted an analysis of intermediate wheatgrass, the perennial crop that produces Kernza® grain, to gather insights for breeding programs looking to improve the…

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Author: Prabin Bajgain, Hannah Stoll & James A. Anderson
Publication: The Plant Genome

Intermediate wheatgrass, the grass that produces Kernza® perennial grain, is being domesticated for its potential as a human food that also delivers notable ecological benefits. Research partners at the University…

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Author: Jacob D. Paul, Tymofiy Lutsiv & Henry J. Thompson
Publication: Food and Energy Security

Researchers at Colorado State University published a paper discussing the benefits of pursuing a “Perennial Green Revolution” where the further development of perennial grains like Kernza®, silflower (a perennial oilseed…

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Author: Hannah Dräger, Justin Mobley, Poorya Kamali, Masoumeh Dorrani, Bert Lynn, Lee DeHaan & Rachel R. Schendel
Publication: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Lee DeHaan, Lead Scientist in the Kernza Domestication Program, and researchers at the University of Kentucky-Lexington published a study analyzing the potential for intermediate wheatgrass biomass to serve as a…

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Author: Mackenzie Ferguson, Anashwar Valsalan, Douglas Cattani & Maneka Malalgoda
Publication: Cereal Chemistry

Collaborators at the University of Manitoba in Canada conducted a study to determine how the growing environment for intermediate wheatgrass (the plant that produces Kernza® grain) impacts the nutritional content…

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Author: Priscila Pinto, Stefania Cartoni-Casamitjana, David E. Stoltenberg & Valentin D. Picasso
Publication: Field Crops Research

Research collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a study to understand how intercropping legumes like alfalfa and clover impact the grain and forage yields of Kernza compared to monoculture…

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Author: Katie L. Black, Gregg A. Johnson, Samantha S. Wells, Axel Garcia y Garcia, Jacob M. Jungers & Jeffrey S. Strock
Publication: Ecosphere (Ecological Society of America)

Colleagues at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics researched the impact of landscape position on perennial crop productivity, particularly as it pertains to soil nutrients and…

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Author: Sadikshya R Dangi, Upendra M Sainju, Brett L Allen & Rosalie B Calderon
Publication: Soil Systems

Researchers from the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS) in Sidney, Montana investigated the fertilization rates of nitrogen, a key plant nutrient often provided by synthetic fertilizers, in perennial crops (including…

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Author: Prabin Bajgain, Jacob M Jungers & James A Anderson
Publication: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Long-time collaborators at the University of Minnesota released a paper evaluating trait differences among four synthetic populations of MN-Clearwater, the first commercially available variety of intermediate wheatgrass (the plant that…

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Author: Alena Förster, Karin Hohberg, Frank Rasche & Christoph Emmerling
Publication: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

Researchers in Germany looked at the influence of intermediate wheatgrass, the plant that produces Kernza® perennial grain, on nematode populations and community structure, using these microorganisms as an indicator of…

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Author: Kristina Michl, Christophe David, Benjamin Dumont, Linda-Maria Dimitrova Mårtensson, Frank Rasche, Gabriele Berg & Tomislav Cernava
Publication: Environmental Microbiome

Like humans, plants possess a microbiome that can be inherited and passed on to the next generation of plant seeds, which provides opportunities for plant breeders to harness knowledge surrounding…

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