The spring Agronomy and Horticulture seminar series begins with “Metamitron, Six Years in the Making: Palmer Amaranth Control in Sugar Beet,” presented by Nebraska’s Nevin Lawrence, associate professor of agronomy and horticulture, on Feb. 13.
“As of 2023, there were no herbicides to control Palmer amaranth in sugar beet within Nebraska or Colorado,” Lawrence said.
The extension weed management specialist will cover the Panhandle Weed Science group’s last six years of research that led to an emergency-use label for a novel herbicide, saving the industry $7 million in yield in 2024.
This seminar and all that follow will be in Keim Hall, Room 150, and streamed live.
All seminars are free and open to the public. Seminars will be in person on Thursdays, streamed live at 11 a.m. CST/CDT, and recorded unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served at 10:30 a.m.
Dates and topics for the rest of the series are as follows:
Feb. 20: “Designing Nitrogen-Use Efficient Maize Using a Population Genomics Approach,” Jinliang Yang, associate professor and Charles O. Gardner Professorship of Agronomy, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Feb. 27: “Agriculture Biotechnology A Tool for Functional Genomics and Complementing Plant Breeding Programs,” Thomas Clemente, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
March 6: “The Role of Conservation Management in Nitrogen Balance: Findings from the UNL-NRCS Collaboration,” Adewole Adetunji, postdoctoral research associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
March 13: “What We Learned From Three Years of Growing Tye, Vetch and Mixture in Eastern Nebraska Under Variable Precipitation Seasons,” Tauana Ferriera De Almeida, postdoctoral research associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
March 27: “Water or Wisdom? Tackling Agriculture Sustainability in Türkiye,” Denize Istipliler, assistant professor, Department of Field Crops, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
April 3: “Ecometabolomics and Plant Response to Climate Change,” Noure Benkeblia, professor of crop science, director of the Laboratory of Crop Science, Department of Life Sciences, Caribbean Centre for Research in Bioscience, the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.
April 10: Julie Thomas, research scientist, director of the Experiment Station, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas.
April 17: “Assessing and Advancing Digital Agriculture in Nebraska,” Peter Sikkema, professor emeritus, Field Crop Weed Management, University of Guelph, Canada.
Source : unl.edu