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The hot, dry, and windy conditions of the High Plains can carry herbicides miles from the application site, and for perennial species such as grapes, this potential volatility and drift exposure may affect plant productivity and yield for many years. Researchers from the TTU Department of Plant and Soil Science are hoping to help...
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February 28, 2021
Benildo de los Reyes — PSS Professor of Plant Genomics and Bayer Crop Science Endowed Chair — has been named a 2021 Outstanding Researcher by the TTU Office of Research & Innovation. The award recognizes achievement in research and scholarship, and follows de los Reyes's nomination by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources for his work in plant genomics...
February 27, 2021
Lam-Son Phan Tran, a Texas Tech University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources expert in biotechnology and biological sciences, has been named among the world's most highly cited researchers in their respective fields for 2020...
February 15, 2021
PSS undergrad Jonathan Peters is the recipient of the Professional Soil Scientists Association of Texas 2020-2021 Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes and supports outstanding undergraduates in soil science and is awarded on the basis of academic achievement, extracurricular engagement, leadership, and work ethic...
February 12, 2021
In January 2021, three PSS researchers were awarded a 3-year, $500,000 grant by the United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant is part of the nation's leading competitive grants program for agricultural sciences to improve rural economies, ensure food safety and security, address water availability issues, and mitigate impacts of climate variability...
January 31, 2021
PSS graduate students Delaney Foster and Ubaldo Torres represented the department exceptionally well at the recent Southern Weed Science Society annual meeting...
January 22, 2021
Montague, who also holds a joint appointment to Texas A&M AgriLife Research-Lubbock, and Russ Wallace, a professor and extension specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Research-Lubbock, recently received a second Texas Department of Agriculture Specialty Crops Block Grant for the statewide strawberry research project. The added support builds on the first phase of research project led by Wallace, which was funded by the TDA in 2018...
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