During the 2024 football season, the Big Ten Network is featuring the crop genetics research conducted by a team led by James Schnable, professor of agronomy and horticulture.
Schnable's team recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance work on an innovative strategy for predicting the performance of corn hybrids in new environments. The $650,000 grant from the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is allowing Schnable to scale up a study his laboratory published earlier this summer. The research provided initial evidence that an RNA-based method could outperform current approaches that use DNA-based information to identify the functions of individual corn genes and predict the physical properties of the plants.
