Agronomy & Plant Genetics
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Sciences
Twin Cities
Award Year
2017
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Research Title
Translating Big Data into Improved Crop Performance in Agricultural Systems
No Monument Location
We are facing the challenge of needing to produce more food on less land. We have the added challenge that every year there are increasingly more extreme environment conditions that threaten crop yields. Research in the Hirsch lab integrates big data including high throughput sequencing, high throughput phenotyping, and extensive environmental measurements with the end goal of produce more food on less land while mitigating risk to farmers associated with environmental conditions.