Research
Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Omar Zayed
Friday, January 17th, 2020
OMAR ZAYED “Understanding plant tolerance mechanisms to overcome abiotic stress — and providing a new technique to help plants to be more resistant to salinity — could be the only future solution to secure food for the world.” — Omar Zayed, PhD candidate, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture THE STUDENT Residents of Omar Zayed’s hometown…
Read MoreAncient iron-sulfur-based mechanism monitors electron flow in photosynthesis
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 • University News Story
A delicate balance of electrons flowing through the photosynthetic machinery is essential to a plant’s ability to turn sunlight into energy and its survival. Understanding the factors that regulate this balance is key for plant breeders who may want to…
Read MoreMicrobubble findings could reduce chemical, water use in food processing
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 • University News Story
Cleaning and sanitizing food processing equipment requires using chemicals and copious amounts of water for rinsing those chemicals away. It’s possible – if it can be done correctly – that creating microscopic bubbles in water could reduce or eliminate…
Read MorePurdue scientists develop way to track salmonella infection in real time
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 • University News Story
When bacteria like salmonella infect and sicken people, they hijack a person’s cell proteins to develop a defense against an immune response. Understanding how that works and developing methods for defending against these bacteria is difficult because …
Read More Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Jing Huang
Monday, January 6th, 2020
JING HUANG “Accurately collecting plant vasculature is very challenging. We are establishing plantains as a model species to study vasculature-specific physiology and responses due to the ease of vascular tissue collection in this plant.” — Jing Huang, PhD student, Department of Agronomy THE STUDENT Jing Huang’s career path was influenced by where she grew…
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Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Jonathan Knott
Monday, December 16th, 2019
JONATHAN KNOTT “In understanding how human-related impacts are changing the world, I’m working toward helping future generations.” — Jonathan Knott, PhD candidate, Forestry and Natural Resources THE STUDENT Jon Knott says that while growing up in Holland, Michigan, he was a “go-out-and-explore” kind of kid. He credits his love of the outdoors to hunting…
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Top ABE department appoints new leader for new century
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
By Chad Campbell In 1998, Nathan Mosier thought he was looking for the best graduate school when he chose Purdue’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE). What he soon realized was that he had also found the ideal professional home – one in which he has learned, taught and led for the last 21…
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Behind the Research: Niki De Armond
Monday, December 9th, 2019
About the feature Many people are involved in the remarkable range of programs, services and facilities that undergird research in the College of Agriculture. Collectively they’re integral to the college fulfilling its research mission. “Behind the Research” explores their individual roles. Each academic year, we profile six people whose work supports the College of Agriculture’s…
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New field crops pathologist hits the ground running
Friday, December 6th, 2019
By Chad Campbell “The hardest part for me,” said Darcy Telenko, “is being from a farm and knowing the impact. Knowing what it feels like when a farmer had a great crop, and a new disease emerges that impacts the final harvest and their bottom line. When talking about tar spot, I am honest with…
Read More Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Derico Setyabrata
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
DERICO SETYABRATA “I personally enjoy food — cooking and eating. Sometimes the dry-aging process can really improve the products. It’s interesting for me to figure out those flavors.” — Derico Setyabrata, PhD student, Animal Science THE STUDENT When Derico Setyabrata bites into a flavorful steak, he can’t help but wonder why it tastes so…
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National Teaching and Student Engagement award winner explores learning opportunities with students
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
By Chad Campbell From a distance, Elizabeth Karcher kept an interested eye on her dozen students while they explored a bustling market in Ho Chi Minh City. It was “free time,” but opportunities like these were why Karcher encouraged students to travel to Vietnam. Karcher, an assistant professor of animal sciences, was one of two…
Read More Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Shelby Gruss
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
SHELBY GRUSS “High-throughput phenotyping is a huge field with new opportunities, and just to be part of it is exciting. You get to see new things and do things that people haven’t done before and that could help someone in the future.” — Shelby Gruss, PhD student, Agronomy THE STUDENT Self-described “science person” Shelby…
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Long-term study will offer more data on cover crop benefits
Monday, November 18th, 2019
By Brian Wallheimer The popularity of cover crops has reemerged in recent years with farmers looking to a variety of grasses, brassicas and legumes to improve soil health. Cover crops can also improve water holding capacity, reduce erosion and weed pressure, reduce nitrogen leaching, increase soil organic matter, and potentially decrease nitrogen fertilizer application rates…
Read MoreA new way to create pumpkin spice products, drugs, cosmetics
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 • University News Story
“Like oil and water” doesn’t apply just to personal relationships that aren’t working. It also applies to the challenges scientists face when combining spices and other products that conventionally do not mix well in producing improved drugs, foods and…
Read More Graduate Ag Research Spotlight: Josh Kraft
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
JOSH KRAFT “One of the interesting things about plants is how they deal with different stressors in their environments. They can’t just leave when things get uncomfortable.” — Joshua Kraft, PhD student, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology THE STUDENT After graduating from high school in his hometown of West Lafayette, Josh Kraft went…
Read More$9 million from DOE, partners to take plant sensing from lab to market
Monday, November 4th, 2019 • University News Story
Sending breeders into fields to manually measure the characteristics of plants is slow, laborious and expensive. Remote sensing technologies, coupled with advanced analytics, offer the promise of faster, more accurate data collection to improve the spe…
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Spirit of the Land-Grant Mission Award presented to Haley Oliver
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
By Abby Leeds Haley Oliver, associate professor in food science, was recently honored with Purdue Agriculture’s 2019 Corinne Alexander Spirit of the Land-Grant Mission Award. An expert in retail food safety with an international reputation for her lab’s work on the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, Oliver is the principle investigator and director of the Feed the…
Read MoreSheep checkoff funds show significant progress in 2019, new requests being accepted
Monday, October 28th, 2019 • University News Story
After a year of successful checkoff-funded projects and events, the Indiana Sheep and Wool Market Development Council (IN S&W) is accepting new funding requests at its Nov. 19 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
Read MorePurdue Foundry unveils first DDX cohort ready to transform the world
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 • University News Story
World changing. High growth. The Purdue Foundry has unveiled its first cohort for the Double Down Experiment (DDX), which includes nine businesses ready to reach the next level with technologies designed to change the world.
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