Category: Transform

Making Honey Bee Genomics Routine

Dr. Brock Harpur's lab in Purdue Entomology studies how honey bees evolve and adapt — questions that matter for the health of a pollinator agriculture depends on. To understand what a newly sequenced bee genome reveals, the lab first has...

Findable and accessible research farm data

Purdue Agricultural Centers (PACs) across the state of Indiana collect many different types of data every year at both field and smaller research trial scales. The amount of historic data generated from each of these PACs is substantial, especially with...

Ag Alumni Seed Phenotyping Facility

Purdue’s 7,300-square-foot phenotyping facility

Enhancing data quality and usability

Dr. Jackie Boerman and Dr. Luiz Britol wanted to analyze data produced at dairy farms. Dairy producers are utilizing multiple software programs and sensors on their farms to assist with the management of their farms. A challenge to fully utilizing...

Dr. Shalamar Armstrong – S.E.N.D. Lab

Dr. Shalamar Armstrong's Soil Ecosystem and Nutrient Dynamics (SEND) Lab, in Purdue Agronomy, studies how cover crops protect farmland — the nutrients in the soil, the water that runs off it, and the yields that follow. The harder problem was...