With the help of a new $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Texas A&M AgriLife researchers will collaborate to elevate phenotyping for plant science and improving plant growth predictions.
Seth Murray, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research corn breeder and Butler Chair, and Amir Ibrahim, Ph.D., Regents Professor and AgriLife Research small grains breeder and geneticist, both in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University, Bryan-College Station, have orchestrated a team of collaborators to continue research started at Texas A&M. The research uses the corn Genomes to Fields, G2F, Initiative and high-throughput phenotyping of wheat yield-related traits and foliar disease resistance to increase efficiency and gain.To learn more about this grant, click here.
