Projects

Current Projects

Years	Description
2020 to 2025	Funded by USDA Environmental stress tolerance in wheat.
2020 to 2024	Funded by USDA Impact of heat and drought stress on sorghum and wheat grain composition and chemistry.
2020 to 2023	Funded by USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification (Phase II) Pathways of scaling agricultural innovations for sustainable intensification in the polders of coastal Bangladesh.
2020 to 2022	Funded by Kansas Soybean Commission Redox-engineered soybean-a novel way to safeguard Kansas soybeans from severe drought and heat stress.
2019 to 2021	Funded by TopCon Positioning Systems Inc. Enhancing nitrogen and water use efficiency in wheat and sorghum, using ground and aerial-based sensor platforms.
2019 to 2021	Funded by NSF EAGER Real-time measurement of sap-flow dynamics in sunflower via nuclear magnetic resonance.
2019 to 2021	Funded by USDA NIFA Establishing the value of Alfalfa with highly digestible fiber.
2017 to 2021	Funded by National Science Foundation Comparative genomics and phenomics approach to discover genes underlying heat stress resilience in cereals (RII Track-2 FEC).

Years	Description
2015 to 2020	Funded by USDA Impact of heat and drought stress on sorghum and wheat grain composition and chemistry.
2016 to 2020	Funded by USDA Tolerance to environmental stress in wheat.
2016 to 2020	Funded by USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification (Phase I) Unlocking the production potential of “polder communities” in coastal Bangladesh through improved resource use efficiency and diversified cropping systems.
2016 to 2018	Funded by Kansas Soybean Commission High throughput platform to enhance quality of beans and add value to Kansas Soybean Breeding Program.
2015 to 2018	Funded by Kansas Wheat Commission Strategies to develop wheat genotypes to beat post-flowering heat and drought stress.
2015 to 2018	Funded byKansas Grain Sorghum Commission Physiological and Genetic Characterization of Grain Sorghum for Enhancing Terminal Heat and Drought Stress Resilience.
2016 to 2017	Funded by TeachAccel Validating promising rice transgenic events identified with potential superior salt stress resilience.
2016 to 2017	Funded by CGIAR [IRRI]-US [Kansas State University] Universities Linkage Program Rice pollen lipidomic and metabolite re-programming under heat stress.
2015 to 2017	Funded by USDA Through US CGIAR Linkage Program Improving pearl millet productivity for smallholder resilience to climate change in Niger.