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Inoculation And Amendment Strategies Influence Switchgrass Establishment In Degraded Soil, Ekundayo Adeleke, Kudjo E. Dzantor, Ali Taheri
Inoculation And Amendment Strategies Influence Switchgrass Establishment In Degraded Soil, Ekundayo Adeleke, Kudjo E. Dzantor, Ali Taheri
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research
Bioenergy feedstock production on degraded land can serve as a means for modulating land competition for food versus energy. Due to little or no agricultural value of degraded soil, fortification of the soil with an organic amendment or inoculum will improve biomass productivity. However, as farmers struggle to rejuvenate their degraded land, there is a need for a quick screening strategy to select the best method of enhancing cellulosic (switchgrass, SG) biomass production in degraded soil. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effects of soil amendment and inoculation strategies on biomass productivities of SG in a reclaimed …
Variation Analysis Of Root System Development In Wheat Seedlings Using Root Phenotyping System, Ekundayo Adeleke, Reneth Millas, Waymon Mcneal, Justin Faris, Ali Taheri
Variation Analysis Of Root System Development In Wheat Seedlings Using Root Phenotyping System, Ekundayo Adeleke, Reneth Millas, Waymon Mcneal, Justin Faris, Ali Taheri
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research
Root system architecture is a vital part of the plant that has been shown to vary between species and within species based on response to genotypic and/or environmental influences. The root traits of wheat seedlings are critical for their establishment in soil and evidently linked to plant height and seed yield. However, plant breeders have not efficiently developed the role of RSA in wheat selection due to the difficulty of studying root traits. We set up a root phenotyping platform to characterize RSA in 34 wheat accessions. The phenotyping pipeline consists of the germination paper-based moisture replacement system, image capture …