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Sorghum plants at all stages of growth receive sunlight on a warm October day in an East Campus gree

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Cole Weston, one of the greenhouse managers on East Campus, waters sorghum plants. East Campus green

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Sorghum plants grow in an East Campus greenhouse. October 23, 2025.

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James Schnable (from left), Rebecca Roston and Toshihiro Obata hold young sorghum plants outside of

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Katarzyna Glowacka, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million g

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Katarzyna Glowacka, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million g

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Joe Louis is researching sorghum genetics to develop sorghum that can fend off sugar cane aphids whi

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Scott Sattler, Tomas Helikar and Joe Louis are researching sorghum genetics to develop plants that c

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Joe Louis is researching sorghum genetics to develop sorghum that can fend off sugar cane aphids whi

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Tomas Helikar, Joe Louis and Scott Sattler are researching sorghum genetics to develop plants that c

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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PhD student Hongyu Jin cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and used to plant test

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Mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles lay in the field before they are collected. The seeds will

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Post-Doctoral student Ravi Mural carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of th

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles lay in the field before they are collected. The seeds will

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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James Schnable, Charles O. Gardner Professor of Agronomy, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds w

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Research manager Christine Smith carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of th

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James Schnable, Charles O. Gardner Professor of Agronomy, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds w

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Kyle Linders packs mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles into the pickup bed following harvest.

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Jon Turkus carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of the field for collection

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Graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener looks over ripe sorghum plants in her test field northeast of 84t

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener looks over ripe sorghum plants in her test field northeast of 84t

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Alice Guo, a sophomore from Omaha, measures stem diameters in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Hav

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Sorghum plants in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2020.

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Kyle Linders measures stem diameters in the sorghum test plots at 84th and Havelock. September 21, 2

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Alexis Finch, a sophomore from Omaha, measures stem diameters in the sorghum test plots at 84th and

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