Rice research plots at the International Rice Research Institute, Los Baňos, Philippines. (Photo courtesy of Van Schepler-Luu.) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Colorado State University researchers $850,000 to study how plants control their microbiome...
CSU doctoral student Diego Gutierrez works in a College of Agricultural Sciences lab run by assistant professor Robyn Roberts. Growing up in Peru, Diego Gutierrez, a graduate student at Colorado State University, formed a deep connection to agriculture. His...
A quinoa field in the San Luis Valley (Photo by Paul New) A few years ago, Paul New started noticing pin-size holes in some of the stems of the quinoa plants growing on his farm in the San Luis Valley. He didn’t think too much of it at first; there was plenty of other...
Agricultural and Resource Economics faculty member Andrew Seidl receives the Nutrien Distinguished Scholar of Agricultural Sciences award from Dean James Pritchett. Horticulture and Landscape Architecture M.S. student Allisa Linfield receives the Graduate Student...
Cotesia rubecula is a parasitoid wasp from the large wasp family Braconidae. For Enakshi Ghosh it was love at first sight. “I was taking a tour at the National Bureau of Agricultural Research Insect Resources Museum in India, and the director showed me the tiny egg...
Drought, heat, stress, pests — to survive environmental challenges like these, plants must change and evolve over time. By understanding this process, scientists can engineer, design and test possible genetic solutions to improve the crops that feed and fuel the human...
