Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Spangler, Holly

Titel

Pennycress: The first cash cover crop

Ist Teil von

• Western Farm Press, 2022-06

Ort / Verlag

Clarksdale: Penton Media, Inc., Penton Business Media, Inc. and their subsidiaries

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]Phippen, a plant breeder at Western Illinois University, loaded up his wife and kids in the family minivan and hit the road. Developing a crop As Phippen’s early seed collection efforts might suggest, his program was underfunded in the beginning — until 2019, when he received $10 million over five years as part of a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant known as I-PREFER. Illinois State leads that project, known as IPREP, with partners that include federal agencies in Washington state and California, Ohio State University, and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.