(Last Updated: August 26, 2024)

Press Releases, Web Articles & Videos

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  • 07/05/2024: How Can Iowa's Agriculture Adapt To Climate Threats?
  • 07/01/2024: MLCAS Corn Yield Prediction Using Satellite Data - This challenge is part of the MLCAS2024 workshop. It focuses on the use of satellite imagery datasets to predict genotype-specific plot level yield for the 2023 multi-state maize hybrid trials. The winners will receive cash prizes and will be recognized at the MLCAS 2024 workshop. For more details about MLCAS, please visit our site at 2024 MLCAS.
  • 03/27/2024: US Farms are Making an Urgent Push Into AI. It Could Help Feed the World
  • 01/13/2024: Move Towards Precise Crop Inputs
  • 01/10/2024: Innovators of Iowa State: A Third Crop for Iowa?
  • 11/08/2023: ISU researchers hunt for hard-to-spot genetic links to improve crop and livestock breeding
  • 10/06/2023: Move Towards a Resilient Food Supply
  • 09/19/2023: Ag professor father and son duo develop proso millet as crop for the future
  • 09/15/2021: New institute aims to unlock the secrets of corn using artificial intelligence
  • 01/26/2021: Through uncertainty, plans move research forward -- on campus, at home and around the world
  • 09/11/2020: Iowa State University Leads New Project to Build "Genome to Phenome" Research Community Across Crops and Livestock
  • 06/22/2020: Researchers building cyber-physical system to monitor crops, drive decisions, boost yields
  • 07/19/2019: Connecting silos: Iowa State University scientists call for unconventional collaboration in agriculture
  • 05/15/2019: Blocked by GMO politics, African scientist turns to 1950s technology
  • 08/13/2018: Genetics Taking Corn to New Heights
  • 01/25/2018: Researchers at ISU Develop Sensors to Help Farmers Understand How Much Nitrogen and Water Their Crops Need
  • 01/03/2018: Engineers make wearable sensors for plants, enabling measurements of water use in crops
  • 05/07/2017: Biology Meets Math: How Big Data Will Improve Seed Development
  • 07/23/2014: Stories in Agriculture and Life Sciences Vol. 7 No. 2, 2013 - The Future of Agricultural Research
  • 07/17/2014: Scientists unlock the genetic secrets of bread wheat
  • 12/04/2013: The Future of Agricultural Research: Collaboration in a Rising Tide of Data
  • 11/14/2013: Nimblegen announced the release of SeqCap EZ Exome Designs for target enrichment of the wheat, barley and maize genomes
  • 09/23/2013: Iowa State University Announces New Iowa Corn Promotion Board Endowed Chair in Genetics
  • 12/03/2012 - Article: Paschold A, Y Jia, C Marcon, S Lund, NB Larson, CT Yeh, S Ossowski, C Lanz, DS Nettleton, PS Schnable, F Hochholdinger (2012) Complementation contributes to transcriptome complexity in maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids relative to their inbred parents. Genome Res, 22(12): 2445-2454.
  • 09/21/2012 - NSF Grant: Core techniques, libraries, and domain specific languages for high-throughput DNA sequencing
  • 07/26/2011 ASPB member Patrick Schnable gives Capitol Hill seminar on the future of our food
  • 04/26/2011: NSF Doles Out $3M Grant for Maize Diversity Study Using Arrays, Next-Gen Sequencing
  • 03/31/2011: Race Car Code for Computational Biology
  • 10/18/2010: Plant Genomics Lab Experiences Iowa Farming
  • 07/01/2010: Corn growers explore ISU corn genomics lab
  • 11/21/2009: James and the Giant Corn, "The CNN (Corn News Network) of the Maize Genome"
  • 11/21/2009: OpenHelix discusses CNV and PAVs