Crop Physiology

Project webpage 4-26-13
Staff

Dr. Qingwu Xue – Assistant Professor of Crop Stress Physiology
Dr. Baozhen Hao – Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr. Gautam Pradhan – Post Doctoral Research Associate
Kirk E. Jessup – Research Assistant
Michelle Hou – Graduate Student
Sarah Ajayi – Graduate Student


Projects

  • Program Goal: To improve crop yield, stress resistance, and water use efficiency in the Texas High Plains.

Wheat beveled Wheat

  • Develop rapid and accurate protocols for detecting differences in water use and drought tolerance in wheat genotypes.

Corn beveled Corn

  • Develop, implement, and assess an integrated best management irrigation production strategy for high yield while using limited irrigation water.

Sorghum beveled  Sorghum

  • Investigate the physiological and agronomic responses of grain sorghum to N and P under three irrigation conditions (dryland, deficit irrigation and full irrigation).

Cotton beveled Cotton

  • Investigate cotton yield to N and P under three irrigation conditions (dryland, deficit irrigation and full irrigation).
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