College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences

PSM In The News

• Capturing carbon with crops, trees and bioenergy

  Published on June 1, 2022
  

• PSM / MSU researcher receives $750K grant to examine effects of wildfire burn severity on soil health

  Published on February 22, 2022 by MSU Today
  

• Michigan produced more than 2 billion pounds of potatoes in 2021

  Published on February 11, 2022 by Hillsdale Daily News
  

• Nine MSU researchers elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Published on January 26, 2022 by MSU Today
  

• Michigan State researchers part of team investigating winter stresses on turfgrass in northern climates

  Published on January 26, 2022 by Golf Course Industry
  

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  Dr. Kyungmin "Alyssa” Kim (Kravchenko, Dec 2021) won the Truog Dissertation award.

  Published on July 18, 2022
  “Change of Soil Micro-Environments During Plant Decomposition and its Effect on Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics” awarded Soil Science Society of America's highest grad student honor.

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  Creating sustainable crops in a changing climate

  Published on July 15, 2022
  How does elevated CO2 affect a plant’s ability to take up nutrients? And Why does the nutritional content affect a plant’s ability to thrive and fight disease?

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  MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources receives state funding for updated dairy, greenhouse facilities

  Published on July 8, 2022
  The university will receive $53 million in state funding to update the dairy and greenhouse facilities.

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  MSU receives $590K USDA grant for corn tar spot resistance research

  Published on July 7, 2022
  Addie Thompson, an assistant professor of maize genetics and genomics, leads the project.

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  PSM Welcomes New Faculty Member Barret Wessel

  Published on July 6, 2022
  Meet Dr. Barret Wessel, Ph.D., a new faculty member who recently joined PSM as an assistant professor.

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PSM Featured News

New Publication

Protecting plant nutrition from the effects of climate change

How does elevated CO₂ affect a plant’s ability to take up nutrients? And Why does the nutritional content affect a plant’s ability to thrive and fight disease? In an essay published in the journal Current Biology, PSM’s Hatem Roauchad and his colleague Zaigham Shahzad propose steps toward understanding the link between increased CO₂ and the mineral nutritional value of food crops.   Read more here

Welcome New Faculty

Barret Wessel has joined our faculty team – Dr. Wessel’s research generally focuses on the genesis, morphology, and management of soils. His specialty is wetland and subaqueous soils, but his interests also include agricultural soils, and urban and anthropogenic soils.   Read entire article here. 

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