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Center for Plant Science Innovation

Husker biochemist Ed Cahoon, wearing a white labcoat and blue gloves, holds a tray of test tubes in a laboratory.

Research shows oilseeds’ potential for bioproduct creation

August 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Six University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded professorships from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.

Six faculty earn professorships

April 25, 2022

Visitors examine Mel Chin's "Revival Field Plant and Field Study," one of two student-selected works on display in the museum.

Cross-disciplinary talk to explore new Sheldon artworks

March 21, 2022

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rice plant

Study IDs 1,000+ mislabeled, overlooked gene fragments in plants

March 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

High school student Holly Podliska (center) and Husker undergraduates Daniel Ngu (left) and Conner Pederson (right) gather maize root microbiome samples in 2017. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s new Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates program will give students 10-week summer research experiences and scientific communication and leadership training.

Grant will fund ‘Crop-to-Food Innovation’ undergraduate training program

February 18, 2022

Sorghum

Team IDs key to sorghum’s heat resilience, aims to boost corn’s tolerance

May 20, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

All the angles: Automated image processing could aid crop evals

September 29, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Faculty (from left) Ed Cahoon, Jody Koenig Kellas and Walter Stroup are among winners of the University of Nebraska's most prestigious awards for research, creative activity, teaching and engagement.

Cahoon, Kellas, Stroup collect top NU honors

February 28, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Jim Alfano

Obituary | James “Jim” R. Alfano

November 22, 2019

Aboretum plant sales

Fascination of Plants Day is May 18

May 8, 2019

Wholesale or piecemeal? NSF-funded study seeks genetic insights

August 29, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology