DEEPER team members Alex Bucksch (left), Molly Hanlon (middle), and Malcom Bennet (photographer) with Roots Lab member Jimmy Burridge (right) hike through the desert near Tuscon, AZ before the 2019 Phenome Meeting.
Socializing at an aptly named bar in Seville at SEB 2019
(left to right) Malcolm Bennett, Kathleen Brown, Xinguang Zhu, Laurent Laplaze, Jonathan Lynch, Ernst Schafer, Chris Black
Planting maize nitrogen stress field at Penn State
Students use jab planters to plant maize plots in the low nitrogen field this spring.
Maize sheltered from a summer rain by rain-out shelters
Drought experiments are conducted in rain-out shelters to limit the amount of water reaching the plants throughout their growth
Nitrogen stress studies underway at Penn State
Penetrometer readings for soil hardness
Alden Perkins, Hancock, WI
Dinner with Wisconsin team and PA visitors
Madison, WI
Drought stress treatment field
Hancock, WI
Root crowns from maize shovelomics
Hancock, WI
Nitrogen stress treatment (left) vs. control (right) field
Hancock, WI
Root anatomy sampling
Hancock, WI
Shovelomics teamwork
Miranda Niemiec and Jagdeep Sidhu, Fort Collins, CO