Soybean plants grow on 5.35 million Nebraska acres and are in line for a record-breaking 2010 harvest, but what intrigues Maxey Elementary schoolchildren are the legumes growing in their classrooms. After all, soybean, while relevant to Nebraska, is a model organism that can promote understanding of real science, say collaborators of a soybean education project […]

UNL is the only university selected to participate in a U.S. Department of Agriculture pilot project to develop quality management standards for field releases of regulated genetically-engineered crops. UNL was selected by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service following an application process, said Dan Duncan, assistant dean of UNL’s Agricultural Research Division. Four other […]