May 11, 2018
Jonathan Lynch has been named the 2018 winner of the Dennis R. Hoagland Award
April 17, 2018
March 2, 2018
Dr. Patompong Saengwilai receives award from Mahidol University
March 1, 2018
RhizoRice project uses social media to promote climate-ready rice
January 19, 2018
Graduate student Christopher Strock is featured in Penn State News for his work on phosphorus-efficient bean roots.
December 20, 2017
Five members of the Roots Lab graduated this semester with doctoral, masters degrees
November 13, 2017
Penn State President asks Drs. Kathleen Brown and Jonathan Lynch about the impact of their research.
August 21, 2017
Researchers are using 3-D modeling to identify the future’s heartiest pickings.
July 5, 2017
The Roots Lab is collaborating with three previous Ph.D. students in a project to develop drought tolerant rice.
June 26, 2017
Funding freeze on ARPA-E has been lifted, allowing the Roots Lab to begin using their new grant funds.
June 19, 2017
Jonathan Lynch's lab is addressing global famine with a combination of old-school methods and modern innovation
June 17, 2017
Ph.D. student Hannah Schneider received one of three Root Phenotyping Working Group Travel Awards to the IPG Root Biology Meeting 2017
June 14, 2017
Terry Bates, previous graduate student of Dr. Jonathan Lynch, researches grape nutrition at Cornell and shares his knowledge and experiences
June 14, 2017
Crops in silico project will accelerate scientists' ability to adapt crops for environmental challenges. Dr. Jonathan Lynch serves as a collaborator on this project.
June 2, 2017
Hannah Schneider, senior Ph.D. student in the Roots Lab, receives CSSA award for her outstanding contributions to agronomy through education, national and international service, and research.
June 1, 2017
Collaborator Amy Marshall-Colón, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded $274,000 from The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to support her project, Crops in silico (Cis).
May 3, 2017
Our lab is caught in the middle of a funding freeze by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). Graduate student Molly Hanlon's experience is featured.
April 14, 2017
The Global Plant Council sat down with Dr. Lynch to discuss his research on crop plant adaptability to drought and low soil fertility.
January 30, 2017
Hannah Schneider, Ph.D. student with Jonathan Lynch, has just been awarded a Future Leaders in Science Award from the Crop Science Society of America.
January 16, 2017
The Roots Lab recently received grant from ARPA-E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program to fund maize root research projects.
January 12, 2017
Jimmy Burridge, Ph.D. student in the Roots Lab, was quoted in an article linking traditional agricultural crops and improved health in a native american tribe in southern Arizona.
January 9, 2017
Jimmy Burridge, Ph.D. student in the Roots Lab and project manager of the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Climate-Resilient Beans, was recently highlighted in an article in Cook's Science for his work on tepary bean drought tolerance.
