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Category: Perennial Crops

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Author: Shoujiao Li, Ana Barreiro, Juan Pablo Almeida, Thomas Prade & Linda-Maria Dimitrova Mårtensson
Publication: Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Collaborators at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) released a paper that compares the impacts of perennial vs. annual crop growth on the diversity of soil microbes and accumulation…

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Author: Lennart Olsson, Elina Andersson, Jonas Ardö, Timothy Crews, Christophe David, Lee DeHaan, Axel Hilling, Aubrey Streit Krug, Michael Palmgren, Sergio Rey, Torbern Tagesson, Anna Westerbergh & Patrik Vestin
Publication: Global Sustainability

The Land Institute’s Tim Crews, Lee DeHaan, and Aubrey Streit Krug worked alongside international research colleagues from Sweden, Denmark, and France to release a comprehensive new paper in the journal Global…

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Author: Gianluigi Giannelli, Lorenzo Del Vecchio, Martina Cirlini, Marco Gozzi, Laura Gazza, Gianni Galaverna, Silvia Potestio & Giovanna Visioli
Publication: Scientific Reports

Perennial grain researchers from the University of Parma in Italy published a paper exploring the potential of perennial wheat to host a rich community of beneficial bacteria in soil, promoting…

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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: 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: Chase A. Stratton, Yvonne Thompson, Konilo Zio, William R. Morrison III & Ebony G. Murrell
Publication: PLOS One

A new paper highlighting uafR, an R computer package developed by The Land Institute’s Crop Protection researchers and research collaborators, highlights the importance of this package for rapidly speeding up and…

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Author: Douglas J. Cattani
Publication: Agriculture

Doug Cattani, perennial grain research partner of The Land Institute from the University of Manitoba in Canada, provided an overview on the role of perennial grains in the future direction…

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Author: Consensus Study Report (Multiple Authors, Reviewers, and Interviewees)
Publication: National Academies Press

The National Academies Press released a consensus study documenting the linkages between soil and human health, particularly the connection between the nutrient density of food and the condition of the…

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Author: Timothy E. Crews
Publication: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

A great deal of attention is currently focused on how agriculture in highly industrialized coun­tries contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emis­sions, and how certain farming innovations might curb the emissions…

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Author: Jared Crain, Peggy Wagoner, Steve Larson & Lee DeHaan
Publication: Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Lee DeHaan, Lead Scientist of the Kernza® Domestication Program, and key Kernza collaborators Peggy Wagoner (the scientist who first selected Intermediate Wheatgrass as a viable perennial grain candidate for domestication),…

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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: Shilai Zhang, Guangfu Huang, Yujiao Zhang, Xiutao Lv, Kejiang Wan, Jian Liang, Yupeng Feng, Jinrong Dao, Shukang Wu, Lin Zhang, Xu Yang, Xiaoping Lian, Liyu Huang, Lin Shao, Jing Zhang, Shiwen Qin, Dayun Tao, Timothy E. Crews, Erik J. Sacks, Jun Lyu, Len J. Wade & Fengyi Hu
Publication: Nature Sustainability

New research reports that a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial rice with significant environmental, economic, and social sustainability impacts is now being grown in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa. Abstract…

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