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University of Minnesota students conducted crucial genome sequencing for the newly discovered soybean gall midge — a pest that is threatening the soybean crop, one of the most widely cultivated and consumed throughout the world.

Climate science is important – so is the need to make it actionable and useful to communities at large, which is the driving force behind the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership. 

The Plant Protein Innovation Center focuses on challenges and opportunities identified by the food industry while also addressing global concerns about sustainable food production.

A recent survey conducted by the U of M’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences—in collaboration with the U’s Climate Adaptation Partnership—takes a closer look at Minnesotans’ perspectives on climate change. 

In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University’s GEMS Informatics Center, Department of Applied Economics, and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute assembled area data and the associated genetic pedigrees for the 1,353 commercial wheat varieties that made up most of the U.S. crop from 1919 to 2019.

GPS Alliance is pleased to announce the award, as part of its systemwide initiative focused on the SDGs, of approximately $160,000 to eight research projects that align with the UNs’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the U’s strategic priorities and needs identified by communities.  

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and their counterparts in industry are discussing new ways to work together in search of solutions for the mounting problem plastic waste poses across the globe.

Of the 600,000 subsurface sewage treatment systems processing over 40 billion gallons of wastewater per year in Minnesota, estimates put 25% of these SSTS on or near shoreland. 

A look at the Water Resources Center’s Onsite Sewage Treatment Program with graduate student Elizabeth Boor.