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item Betalain synthesis in alfalfa impacts fiber digestion and enteric methane production (Jan 2026)
item Assessment of seed treatments for management of pathogens causing seed rot, seedling damping-off, and seedling root rot in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) (Jan 2026)
item Canola alters rhizosphere and root microbiome of following wheat crops (Dec 2025)
item A 3D printed grinder adaptor for streamlined sample processing (Dec 2025)
item Application of spent mushroom compost enhances wheat yield but reduces mycorrhizal associations and grain nutrient concentration (Nov 2025)
item Conquering the devastating diseases of alfalfa (May 2025)
item Perspective: Impacts of dairy forage management on soil carbon change and net zero accounting (Apr 2025)
item Seasonal nonstructural carbohydrates in the crowns and rhizomes of in situ populations of Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) and the hybrid Bohemian knotweed (F. x bohemica) (Apr 2025)
item Performance and mycorrhizal colonization of industrial hemp varieties under regenerative organic systems in northeastern region (Mar 2025)
item Impact of tillage practices and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on organic sweet corn yield and nutritional quality (Mar 2025)
item Foliar fungi-imposed costs to plant productivity moderate shifts in composition of the rhizosphere microbiome (Mar 2025)
item Quantifying potassium requirement and removal across crop species (Mar 2025)
item First report of Bipolaris zeicola causing leaf spot on Northern Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) in Minnesota (Mar 2025)
item SNPs vs. microhaplotypes: challenges and advantages in alfalfa breeding (Jan 2025)
item Confluence between association mapping and genomic selection to increase stem digestibility in alfalfa (Jan 2025)
item Constructing the alfalfa pangenome: Insights into structural variation and genomic complexity in an autopolyploid crop (Jan 2025)
item Sorghum rhizosphere bacteriome studies and generation of multistrain beneficial bacterial consortia (Jan 2025)
item Stabilization and extraction of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) protein following multiple post-harvest processing techniques coupled with protease inactivation (Jan 2025)
item A stepwise guide for pangenome development in crop plants: An alfalfa (Medicago sativa) case study (Oct 2024)
item The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase QSK1 regulates PRR-RBOHD complexes targeted by the bacterial effector HopF2Pto (Oct 2024)
item Plant community richness and foliar fungicides impact soil Streptomyces inhibition, resistance, and resource use phenotypes (Oct 2024)
item Phenotyping alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) root structure architecture via integrating confident machine learning with ResNet-18 (Sep 2024)
item Multi-trait modeling and machine learning discover new markers associated with stem traits in alfalfa (Sep 2024)
item Conservation agriculture may improve plant and human health by bolstering mycorrhizal networks (Aug 2024)
item Plasticity in root attributes and belowground interactions between a perennial legume and a grass companion (Aug 2024)
item Defined synthetic microbial communities colonize and benefit field-grown sorghum (Jul 2024)
item Bacterial Stem Blight: A re-emerging disease of alfalfa caused by Pseudomonas syringae phylogroup (PG) 2b and PG7a (Jul 2024)
item Clathrin light chains negatively regulate plant immunity by highjacking the autophagy pathway (Jul 2024)
item Identification of SNP markers associated with resistance to Aphanomyces root rot race 2 (Jun 2024)
item Alfalfa nutrient concentrate provides benefits to diets for rainbow trout (May 2024)
item Molecular dissection of the pseudokinase ZED1 expands effector recognition to the tomato immune receptor ZAR1 (May 2024)
item Improving rice drought tolerance through host-mediated microbiome selection (May 2024)
item Phylogenetic distribution and experimental characterization of corrinoid production and dependence in soil bacterial isolates (Apr 2024)
item Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species (Apr 2024)
item High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals (Mar 2024)
item Conserved transcription factors NRZ1 and NRM1 regulate NLR receptor-mediated immunity (Feb 2024)
item Drought shifts sorghum root metabolite and microbiome profiles and enriches for pipecolic acid (Dec 2023)
item Sorghum bicolor INDETERMINATE1 is a conserved primary regulator of flowering (Dec 2023)
item Selection of arbuscular mycorrhizal species to improve nutrient quality of black turtle beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) (Nov 2023)
item Impact of AMF inoculation on nutrient uptake and growth of sweet corn (Zea mays) and butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata) seedlings (Oct 2023)
item Mycorrhizal Fungi: The colonizers, mediators, and protectors of the ecosystem (Sep 2023)
item Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation increases yield and nutritional quality of yellow and purple fleshed potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) (Mar 2023)
item Linking soil health to human health: Arbuscular mycorrhizae play a key role in plant uptake of the antioxidant ergothioneine from soils (Feb 2023)