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The seeds are in the ground! Ege Üniversitesi

Congratulations to Nebraska Biochem's Edgar Cahoon, who has been named a fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Inventors (National Academy of Inventors). Details: go.unl.edu/i5na #Nebraska #UNL #LNK Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Nebraska CAS Nebraska Research

Ten years ago Dryland Genetics was a brainstorming session with my dad. Then a pitch deck. Then a plant breeding program. Now an actual business with customers and supply chains and sales reps and marketing materials. Crazy ride.

As you make your plans for 2025, be sure to include the Nebraska Plant Science Symposium on your calendar for March 4th! For more info & to register, visit agronomy.unl.edu/academic-progr…

High point of my day so far: My lab manager just "disinvited*" me from a meeting because nothing being discussed needed my input. *Actually he sent a very nice message that he thought the team could handle it without me.

It takes experiments in many places to understand corn. But distant experiments usually get less attention. That’s why I’m excited about satellites. @NikeeShrestha2 lead this AIIRA - AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture project to phenotype individual corn hybrid yield plots at 5 sites spanning 725 miles (1,200 km).

SchnableField, Jonathan Turkus, Lina López C, Kyle Linders, CHIDANAND ULLAGADDi, Dipak Santra, Pat Schnable, James Schnable, and many, many more people combined to take on the big task of collecting 18 traits data from 6,000+ maize field plots across 700+ miles in Iowa and Nebraska 2/6

Waqar Ali (Waqar Ali) and Caner Yavuz (Caner Yavuz) representing our lab at the Nebraska Plant Science Symposium (photos by Nikee Shrestha).

The 4 PhDs I mentor presenting at #MGC2025. Waqar Ali Genes controlling yield components Harshita Diverse transcriptional responses to low nitrogen. Nikee Shrestha Plants prefer exons be divisible by 3. Jensina Davis Linking gene expression and phenotypic plasticity.

The biggest impact I'll ever have as a professor is the people I help to train. Felt wonderful to see so many current trainees and lab alumni together in one place this past weekend.

James Schnable I sincerely hope that 2/3 hands would be raised for you in coming years..!! Please keep on doing it prof…!!

Jon Turkus and Chidu Ullagaddi ready to represent our ARPA-E funded project to improve both gene functional characterization and cross environment predictions at #ARPAE25.

Great turnout at this year's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Showcase! Good to catch up with both old friends (thanks for stopping by Prof. Kim!) and a lot of engineers, programmers and investors what corn was doing at an energy conference.

Did you know corn actually used two different C4 metabolitic pathways? Truyen Quach uses gene editing to promoter base in vivo, characterizing the noncoding sequences regulating enzymes specific to the PCK C4 pathway in maize.

Scientists used genome editing to tweak regulatory regions of 2 photosynthesis genes in #sorghum. The result? New insights into how small DNA changes can impact plant performance. doi.org/10.1002/csc2.7… #CRISPR #GeneEditing #OpenAccess

In January of 2023 Waqar Ali came to Lincoln with no coding background (and no winter coat). Today he published a paper using GWAS to identify genes linked to variation in how corn photosynthesizes, complete with reverse genetics validation in arabidopsis (1/2).

CABBI researchers at University of Nebraska-Lincoln introduced genome editing reagents into sorghum to delete segments of DNA within regions that control expression of 2 genes involved in #photosynthesis. The outcomes can inform editing strategies to modulate the expression of selected gene models.

It's finally happening! After multiple rainouts and a redesign of our whole planting workflow, our nearly 1,000 line sorghum diversity panel in going into the ground today! Big thank you to CHIDANAND ULLAGADDi, Kyle Linders, Jonathan Turkus +our outstanding Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture farm crew!

Planting of the Schnable Lab SbDiv 2025 sorghum field is completed! This 2,438 plot field was the toughest field I worked with due the small plot size (1-row wide and 7.5ft long). However, CHIDANAND ULLAGADDi, Kyle Linders, the UNL AgHort farm crew, and I succeeded!

Planting from the side - youtu.be/O5XZliw6CFA Planting POV - youtu.be/FAWcHSEMfFM?si…