Oil and gas wastewater used for irrigation may suppress plant immune systems
New research indicates that using produced water from hydraulic fracturing for irrigation could leave crop systems more vulnerable to pathogens.
Tag: "Department of Soil and Crop Sciences"
Farmers reap benefits of herbicide-tolerant wheat developed at CSU
Last fall, the CoAXium Wheat Production System became commercially available to farmers in Colorado, where more than 2 million acres of wheat grows across the eastern plains.
White House honors CSU professor with Presidential Early Career Award
Microbiome scientist Kelly Wrighton is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
CSU’s carbon and greenhouse accounting tech wins FoodShot Global Challenge Award
Keith Paustian and his team have created COMET-Farm, a whole farm and ranch carbon and greenhouse accounting system that recently won the Groundbreaker Prize from the FoodShot Global Challenge.
Kelly Wrighton receives Young Investigator Award from microbial ecology society
Wrighton was cited for her outstanding success in studying the genomics and biogeochemistry of soil and deep subsurface microbiomes.
The buzz: New beehives coming to Horticulture Center in May
About a year after Colorado State University’s first bee hives were installed at the Durrell Center, CSU will add four more hives near the Horticulture Center, on the south side of campus.
VIDEO: Microbiome science draws a crowd at first-ever symposium
The event covered a wide spectrum of microbiome scientific topics and included a keynote talk by science writer Ed Yong.
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Long after the rains stop, floodwaters continue to impact soil’s physical, chemical and biological properties that all plants rely on for proper growth.
Understanding microbial communities in fractured shales goal of NSF-sponsored project
Mike Wilkins is studying how these microbes drive larger ecosystem functions, both in the Earth's subsurface as well as other contexts.
'Cause we are living in a microbial world
Like the microbes living in our guts, microbiome science at Colorado State University is thriving.