Area: Responsive Agriculture
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Katie Lewis
Associate Professor, Soil Fertility & Chemistry Project: Enhancing health on the Texas High Plains with sustainable and resilient cropping systems that mitigate wind erosion and dust control. This project will answer critical questions about how wind erosion detrimentally impacts human health, and identify strategies to help sustainably improve crop production in the semi-arid Texas High…
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Dmitry Kurouski
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering Project: Raman-based sensing of human and plant health. This project focuses on a non-invasive and non-destructive technique which has previously been used to sense the health of plants. The researchers propose expanding the application of this modern analytic technique to 1) detect and identify metabolism diseases and aging…
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William L. Rooney
Regents Professor, Borlaug-Monsanto Chair in International Crop Improvement, AgriLife Faculty Fellow, Sorghum Breeding & Genetics Project: Enhancing the health benefits of specialty grain sorghum hybrids for the U.S. food industry. This project will build on previously established gains in knowledge from AgriLife Research on sorghum breeding and nutrition to produce hybrid sorghum genotypes that are…
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Marco Palma
Marco Palma, Ph.D., is interim associate director for Responsive Agriculture at the Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture. IHA’s Responsive Agriculture work fosters innovation in agriculture and the food environment to ensure a system that is economically prosperous while providing safe, nutritious and abundant food to promote health and well-being. The Responsive…
