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Department Head: Robert Hoeft

Our mission is to develop and deliver educational and research programs that foster the creation and adoption of agricultural plant production systems that are profitable, environmentally sound, socially responsive, and sustainable.

Through research, we aim to

• Improve crops and soil-crop management
• Develop disease, insect, and weed management strategies for crops
• Evaluate and preserve crop germplasm
• Discover useful genes from new or unique sources to improve crops
• Advance the frontiers of crop and pest management sciences
• Protect the environment

Featured Research Reports (in PDF form):

• Searching for a hypoallergenic soybean
• Study identifies 50 genes controlling one trait
• Two approaches to combat contaminated corn
• Identifying a gene with resistance to soybean aphids
• Finding an ozone-tolerant soybean
• Improved testing for SDS in soybeans