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Spring 2025
Apr. 24 — Cotton Breeding – Preserving Production & Preparing for the Future
Thursday, April 24
12:30PM - 1:30PM
BPS 118
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Apr. 17 — Submergence-tolerant rice varieties development and impact
Apr. 11 — Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in viticulture
Apr. 2 — Soil as a Reactive Matrix: Understanding the Fate and Transport of Microplastics and PFAS in the Built Environment
Mar. 27 — Resource Use Efficiency: Lessons from Rice to Semi-Arid Cropping
Mar. 13 — The Shape of Stress Resilience: Progress on Identifying Genetic Components of Abiotic Stress Through Plant Architecture
CANCELED — USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) – how you can leverage national germplasm collections in your research program
We're sorry to announce that this seminar — which was previously scheduled for March 6 — has been canceled.
Feb. 24 — Digital Agriculture for advancing agronomics towards the next Green Revolution
Feb. 20 — Breaking the Cycle: Understanding Insect Vector-Plant Pathogen Interactions for Smarter Management
Feb. 14 — Management of Cotton Diseases with Host Resistance
Fall 2024
Nov. 15 — Is dryland irrigation sustainable in the American Southwest?
Spring 2024
May 2 — Climate Change in Agriculture
Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D.
Climate scientist, distinguished professor and chair at Texas Tech University, and
chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy
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Apr. 25 — Multi-scale observation and modeling of terrestrial ecosystem production
Xiangming Xiao, Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology and Remote Sensing at School of Biological Sciences, University
of Oklahoma
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Apr. 18 — Carbon dynamics in regenerative cotton systems of the semi-arid Texas Plains
Apr. 11 — Improving Crop Drought Tolerance and Water-use Efficiency in the Texas High Plains – Physiological Perspective
Qingwu Xue, Ph.D.
Professor, Regents Fellow, and Faculty Fellow in the Texas A&M AgriLife Research at
Amarillo and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University
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Apr. 3 — Understanding Climate-Groundwater Feedbacks Using Data Driven and Integrated Hydrologic Modeling Approaches
Hoori Ajami, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Groundwater Hydrology in the Department of Environmental Sciences
at University of California, Riverside
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Mar. 28 — Fusarium Wilt of Cotton in the Southern High Plains: Its History, Current Situation, and Future
Mar. 21 — Understanding single cell regeneration pathway and development of tissue-culture free regeneration and gene-editing platform in crops
Mar. 7 — Three Decades of Evapotranspiration (ET) Measurement – The Bushland Large Weighing Lysimeters
Feb. 28 — N and P regulation of flowering time, architecture, and use efficency in food crops
Feb. 22 — Agricultural Intensification Using Regenerative Practices
Feb. 15 — Could Biotechnology and Genomics Alone Carry the 21st Century Green Revolution? A Cautiously Optimistic View of a Pragmatic Plant Geneticist
Spring 2019
May 2 — Epigenomic landscape modification, network rewiring, and transgressive phenotypes in rice
Ai Kitazumi
PhD candidate, Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, May 2, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 25 — Breeding for abiotic stress tolerance and value added traits in sorghum
Chad Hayes, Ph.D.
Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA-ARS- Cropping Systems Research Laboratory,
Lubbock
Thursday, April 25, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 18 — Ornamental and fruit horticulture
Vikram Baliga
Horticultural Research Greenhouses, Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 11 — Controlling weedy organisms through metabolic engineering: Applications in agriculture and in large-scale bioreactors
Damar Lopez-Arredondo, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 4 — Colloquium Lecture: Environmental plant physiology
Bruce Bugbee, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University
Thursday, April 4, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Open Reception and Graduate Student Interactive Lunch
Mar. 28 — Signal transduction pathways in Arabidopsis
Ning Yuan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scientist Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Mar. 21 — Something old, something new, resources for cotton improvement
Todd Campbell, Ph.D.
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Florence, South Carolina
Thursday, March 21, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Mar. 7 — Approaches to improve soil health and resilience in Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region
Rajan Ghimire, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University
Thursday, March 7, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Feb. 28 — Harnessing Grass Cell Wall Synthesis and Breakdown to Improve Biofuel Production
Laura Bartley, Ph.D.
Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, February 28, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 21 — Entomology
Megha Parajulee, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Department of Entomology
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 14 — Chronic drought stress of common turfgrass species in a semi-arid environment
Joey Young, Ph.D.
Department of Plant and Soil Science Texas Tech University
Thursday, February 14, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 7 — Four archetypes for future food systems
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D.
W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Jan. 31 — Summer-dormant cool-season perennial grasses – New forages resilient to climate fluctuations in the Southern Great Plains
Dariusz Malinowski, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, Vernon
Thursday, January 31, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
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