Current projects

• Testing predictions of plant-microbe-environment interactions to optimize climate adaptation and improve sustainability in switchgrass feedstocks
• Developing novel strategies to enhance the tolerance of crops to a combination of drought and heat stress
• Optimizing Interactive Machine Learning Tools to Support Plant Scientists using Human Centered Design
• Identification of genomic regions underpinning soybean phosphorus uptake and use efficiency to improve sustainability of soybean production
• Interdisciplinary process-based approach to identify nitrogen limitations and increase soybean yield and meal protein
• Root system contributions to sustainable soybean production
• Utilizing genes from the soybean germplasm collection to mitigate drought stress – Phase II
• Leveraging stable isotope traits to improve soybean water use efficiency
• Catalyzing cover crop advancement as a climate-smart practice through a national variety improvement and seed production program
• Thermopriming as a tool to enhance heat stress tolerance in rice under field conditions