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Plant Stress Resilience

Explore plant adaptation to climate and other stressors by using emerging tools to address interactions between genotype, environment, and management.

Root and Rhizosphere Biology

Advance expertise in root biology and interactions with symbionts to create resilient crops and improve management of agriculture and landscape systems.

Resilient, Regenerative, and Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Landscapes

Explore agriculture and landscape systems that can recover from perturbations and improve the ecosystem and human conditions, while increasing yields and ecosystem services.

Digital Innovation

Advance innovation through integrating models, sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence to assimilate spatial and temporal data, as well as transcriptomics, metabolomics, and genomics to improve agronomic, horticultural, and landscape systems.

Nutritional Quality of Plant Foods for Human and Animal Health

Study plant nutritional quality and beneficial secondary metabolites through plant biology, genetics, and crop management, including postharvest physiology.

Research

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    • Plant Stress Resilience
    • Root and Rhizosphere Biology
    • Resilient, Regenerative, and Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Landscapes
    • Digital Innovation
    • Nutritional Quality of Plant Foods for Human and Animal Health
  • Focused Research Areas
    • Focused Research Areas Overview
    • Crop Ecology and Management
    • Fruits and Vegetables
    • Genomics and Root Biology
    • Turfgrass and Ornamental Horticulture
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