Kansas State University’s Daljit Singh is the graduate student recipient of the Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab from the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.
10.13.2016
News
Researchers taking mobile applications to the field to improve food security and economic welfare
Global populations are booming, food demand is skyrocketing and climate change is threatening food security — meanwhile, access to mobile technology is becoming commonplace. The ground is fertile to harness the power of this global mobile network to create and implement tools to accelerate the development of food crops that can withstand the coming challenges of the 21st century.
08.30.2016
Drafting Drones to Help Farmers
Many heads turned when drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, started hovering over the expansive farmlands of Kansas. It was not a military exercise. Researchers at Kansas State University are using drones for a very different purpose — to develop a climate-resilient wheat variety that can combat rising heat and drought.
08.24.2016
Better bread: How researchers use genomics to predict bread quality and accelerate wheat variety development
A team of breeders and geneticists at Kansas State University and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, or CIMMYT, has come up with a new approach to determine if new varieties of bread wheat will have what it takes to make better bread.
07.01.2016
A ‘Fitbit’ for plants? Low-cost, portable platform to gauge plant health
Plant breeders test their experiments by growing the seeds of their labor. They cross two different plants that have desirable traits. They sow the resulting seeds and evaluate the results, hoping to find a candidate variety that is better than anything currently available.
06.22.2016
Wheat Sequencing Consortium Releases Key Resource to the Scientific Community
Following the January 2016 announcement of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), having completed quality control, is now making this breakthrough resource available for researchers via the IWGSC wheat sequence repository at URGI-INRA-Versailles, France.
06.14.2016
Wheat takes a walk on the wild side
Tucked quietly away in the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center is a treasure trove of genetics from around the globe. The Wheat Genetics Resource Center (WGRC) is an internationally-recognized gene bank that curates and houses more than 247,500 seeds from 2,500 wheat and wild wheat species accessions. While maintaining the collection in a climate and humidity controlled environment is an important cornerstone of the WGRC, it is not the only function of the organization.
05.13.2016
Friday March 24, 2016 Field Phenomics Seminar
Scott Chapman, senior principal research scientist, CSIRO Agriculture, University of Queensland, Australia, will present “Field Phenomics in Breeding” from 3:45-4:45 p.m. March 24 in 4031 Throckmorton Hall.
03.24.2016
National Science Foundation awards grant extension to continue development of high-throughput measurements of plant traits
The National Science Foundation has given a big thumbs up to Kansas State University research on determining the most promising plant traits to help increase food production.
01.21.2016
Sequencing the wheat genome to help feed the world
Jesse Poland, Kansas State University assistant professor and assistant director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center, in collaboration with the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, has announced the production of an improved whole genome assembly of bread wheat, the most widely grown cereal in the world.
01.08.2016
