Grant from U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to focus on designing a low-cost, integrated system to identify and screen for high-yielding, deeper-rooted crops.

January 18, 2017

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Crop roots to go deeper with $7m grant
A team led by Penn State plant scientist Jonathan Lynch will combine technologies such as root modeling, robotics, 3D imaging of root architecture and anatomy, X-ray fluorescence and gene discovery to assist in the breeding of corn varieties with deeper and more efficient root systems.Penn State.

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