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Research

The Department of Plant & Soil Science at TTU is a student-focused and research-intense department, offering a range of opportunities for exploration at the cutting edge of academic and functional research. PSS faculty, staff, and students conduct research from the level of plant genomics to large-scale ecosystem interactions and post-production processes.

PSS Seminar Series

The Graduate Student Council in the Department of Plant and Soil Science hosts a weekly Seminar Series, bringing researchers, students, and industry professionals together to dig deep into topics at the forefront of current research.

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Student Research Symposium

This annual symposium provides an invaluable opportunity for students at all stages of their programs to present their research and receive feedback from peers, faculty, staff, and external experts. It is particularly beneficial to graduate and undergraduate PSS students or collaborators who are conducting research and are planning to present their work at major conferences.

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PSS Research News

PSS researchers partnering on multi-university, $26 million NSF-funded project
The project's aim is to bridge engineering, biology, and agricultural fields to revolutionize and explore alternative natural rubber production from domestically grown crops. Catherine Simpson is a co-PI and will be joined in her work by Sukhbir Singh and Haydee Laza...

Guo lab holds precision agriculture workshop
Cutting edge agriculture featuring UAV Remote Sensing, EC Mapping, RTK Automatic Guidance and Data Processing, along with oral and poster presentations, were part of a Precision Agriculture Workshop at the Plant & Soil Science Building and the Quaker Research Farm...

Noureddine Abidi joins prestigious 2024 Class of NAI Senior Members
Noureddine Abidi, the Davis College's Associate Dean for Research, has been honored as a Class of 2024 Senior Member by the National Academy of Inventors Senior Member Advisory Committee and Board of Directors...

PSS researchers among ‘most highly cited’ in the world for 2023
Two prominent scientists from the Department of Plant & Soil Science joined a small fraction of highly cited global researchers who've demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field of research...

Davis College awarded $4.9M to explore boundaries of climate smart crops
A new study led by Texas Tech University agricultural scientists presents a unique opportunity to derive low-cost proxies for greenhouse gas emissions and establish targeted climate smart commodities to strengthen the economic and environmental sustainability on the Texas High Plains...

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