Daniel Szymanski, professor of Purdue’s Departments of Botany and Plant Pathology and Biological Sciences, and Thomas Siegmund, professor in...
A dry season can be devastating to harvests, putting both farmers' livelihoods and communities' food security at risk. Identifying the...
For Kit Mount, a sophomore from Carmel, Indiana, choosing a college major wasn’t easy at first. But one visit to Purdue’s Department of...
After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they hold, plant breeders...
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has joined an effort to mobilize plants as chemical intelligence gatherers. Collaborating with...
In 2010, Jianxin Ma, a professor of agronomy, and his collaborators built the first reference genome for soybeans on the widely studied Williams 82...
Pumpkins gain national spotlight every October. And, every year, Indiana pumpkin pickers trudge through muddy, browning fields searching for the...
Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science, digital agriculture and digital forestry.
Lei Zhang, assistant professor of plant nematology, is on the lookout for the soil-borne roundworm called soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Zhang...
“When people have a fire or natural disasters in their homes, the first things they’ll grab are the photo albums. We need to appreciate...
When someone wants to watch or share a video, they likely go to the free video sharing website YouTube, says Jinha Jung, associate professor of...
Say you’re an agricultural scientist, and you know there’s technology out there that could be a game-changer in your research. But its...
Imagine broccoli’s short, sparse and ugly cousin, and you have Arabidopsis thaliana. It is native to Eurasia and some parts of Africa, but...
As Ying Li steps through the door, Natalia Dudareva stops mid-sentence to spin around and meet her with a sly grin and the words, “I’ve...
It’s easy to imagine the whole of agriculture as a giant feast sprawled out on an equally giant table. America’s famous Thanksgiving...
Jessica McVay, who has worked as a seed analyst, feed microscopist and laboratory coordinator for the Indiana Seed Regulatory Agency for 11 years,...
Space calls out to us to explore and possibly discover a second home. But how will humans sustain themselves on years-long flights or in living on...
The Purdue Plant Science Symposium, sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, has been held at Purdue since 2015. This year, it marked the largest...
Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science, digital agriculture and digital forestry during the...
With limited international travel experience and a student’s budget, Matthew Haan was thrilled when he received the opportunity to go to the...
Gurmukh (Guri) Johal is a scientist, not a teller of fairy tales. But the Purdue professor of botany and plant pathology likens his recently...
“If you ask my mother, I declared in third grade that I was going to be a professor one day,” says Joshua Widhalm. His passion for...
Throughout his career, Agronomy Professor, Mitch Tuinstra, has demonstrated a passion and commitment to global agriculture and food systems. His...
The advantages of packaging a bioactive compound in a nanosized carrier have been proven in medicine for targeted drug delivery. Now Purdue...
The Student Soybean Innovation Competition recently held its 29th annual contest at Purdue University. Sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance...
“It is a wonderful honor, and it will have a big impact,” says Jennifer Wisecaver, associate professor of biochemistry, responding to...
A Purdue University team led by Natalia Dudareva, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry in Purdue University's College of Agriculture, and...
Sorghum has served as a food and feed crop for thousands of years, yet it can become poisonous under drought or freezing conditions. The problem is...
Purdue, ranked as one of America’s most innovative universities, leads land-grant institutions in startup companies and ranks third among...
Purdue University’s Board of Trustees has approved Agronomy Professor Jianxin Ma’s appointment to the Dean’s Chair in Soybean...
Phenotyping at Purdue University is pushing the limits of technology, offering researchers powerful insights into plants without disturbing a...
Some flavors and aromas are more elusive than others, and a team of Purdue University researchers recently found the molecular recipe for one of...
Any undergraduate inching closer to graduation thinks about possible jobs. Searching by specific job titles or particular skill sets, job seekers...
Today, the Purdue University Board of Trustees approved a $20 million allocation toward a phenotyping greenhouse facility. A component of Plant...
Although most of the world's soybean crop is fed to animals, a Purdue plant breeder thinks that soybean's complete protein — it...
Scientists are honing the traits of speed, strength and near invulnerability in an important food crop that, much like a superhero, will help...
Jianxin Ma, professor of agronomy at Purdue University, holds the leaves of a soybean plant. Behind Ma, from left, are students Weidong Wang,...
Like the plot of a mystery novel, research has found a twist in the way plants cannibalize their own cells to survive under stress.
Instead of relying solely on nitrogen in the soil, soybeans and many other legumes can pull nitrogen from the air for their growth – a...
The Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) has announced that Purdue professor Jianxin Ma is its 2021 Fellow Award Recipient. The annual award...
“I was a first-generation student who was smart enough to get into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but once I got there I was...
Purdue University on Friday (April 9) officially launched Purdue’s Next Moves – five new distinct strategic initiatives designed to...
In a contest created to develop novel applications for soybeans, it’s hard to beat a 98% soybean crop stimulant that improves soybean...
Purdue University research, often published in scientific journals, became analytical ore that grateful industries mined and refined,...
Uncovering the complex associations among genes, proteins and the molecules they produce in a living organism can be a monumental task. Some...
The cows at Homestead Dairy in Plymouth, Indiana, are blissfully unaware that every minute of every day they’re generating mountains of data...
sorghum is a great crop for grazing, but livestock producers who use it always have some concern in the backs of their minds. Certain conditions,...
With about 15 wiliwili trees in the Lilly Greenhouses, and only 150 left in the wild after an insect pest decimated its population, Purdue oversees...
McCoy’s search for a postdoc is underway as she works toward her goal of becoming a professor at a small university.
Addressing students whose shoes she stood in 25 years ago, Jocelyn Wong observed, “It is so important, this idea of innovation and innovative...
An innovative seed grant program in its second year is meeting its goal of encouraging collaboration among researchers. Purdue Center for Plant...
A chat with farmers over a cup of coffee in a small Indiana town led to an invention that earned a team of four students first place in the 2018...