UNL Bean Breeder Collaborates on Bean Project in Zambia
June 15, 2023
UNL's Carlos Urrea has been assisting with ongoing research efforts to develop dry bean resistance to the bruchid beetle — a storage pest of dry beans — for growers in southern Africa.
Nebraska Growers Help Estimate Field Variability in Soybean Protein and Oil Content
June 14, 2023
First-year results of a cooperative, multi-state research project aimed at helping growers achieve soybean yields with higher protein and oil content.
Nebraska Researchers Identify Genes that Help Corn Adapt to New Environments
April 13, 2023
The research team hopes to speed development of new corn varieties tolerant to extreme weather conditions and management practices as Nebraska farmers experience increasing water restrictions and fertilizer prices.
Research Team Boosts Environmentally Sustainable Pest Control Via Insect Pheromones
October 20, 2022
Using plant-derived pheromones, the researchers were successfully able to lure diamondback moths in cabbage crops and disrupt mating of cotton bollworm moths in common bean fields.
Hybrid Breeding Workshop begins Aug. 10
June 22, 2021
The in-person and online workshop will focus on decisions that must be made when managing a breeding pipeline that results in the release or commercialization of a hybrid cultivar.
UNL Dry Bean Breeding Program Announces Public Release of Two New Dry Edible Bean Varieties
April 19, 2021
Two new dry edible bean varieties will be available to producers in the near future — a great northern bean suitable for direct harvest and the other, a slow-darkening pinto bean variety with longer shelf life.
Baenziger Supports Growers through Small-Grains Program
December 17, 2020
Over the course of his 34-year career at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, P. Stephen Baenziger has developed 61 new cultivars of wheat, barley and triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.
Nebraska Team Merges Machine Learning, Plant Genetics to Maximize Sorghum Potential
August 22, 2019
Sorghum is emerging as a star player in the biofuels industry. With its water use efficiency, resistance to heat, and low cost of seed, it could outpace corn, with a little boost from improved genetics. To aid that, a UNL team was recently awarded a $2.7 million grant to work on a rapid, efficient method for characterizing its gene functions.