March 18, 2024

The Montana Wheat and Barley Committee hosted a March Madness research presentation competition for students. The lab had a great showing, with Jared Lile earning second prize and Chloe Hinson earning third!

January 28, 2024

M.S. student Chloe Hinson received a Professional Advancement Grant from MSU and was named a 2024 American Society of Plant Biologists Travel Award recipient to attend the 2024 Plant Biology meeting in Hawaii!

January 1, 2024

The lab is excited to welcome two new M.S. students, Connor Nelle and Krishna Nandakumar!

August 25, 2023

Welcome new M.S. student Chloe Hinson to the lab!

November 11, 2022

Gill beautifully presented and defended her PhD research! Congratulations, Dr. Reynolds!

Gill's defense announcement

November 8, 2022

Erik won second place for his presentation at the ASSA-CSSA-SSA Meeting in the Spatial and Remote Sensing section!

November 1, 2022

Kira and Anapaula were awarded financial support from the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program for their research this semester!

June 7, 2022

Burak successfully defended his Master's thesis! Congratulations, Burak, on your beautifully detailed work examining cannabis reproductive development!

May 14, 2021

Beth and Jennifer presented a livestream workshop on how we are currently using Raspberry Pi computers for high-throughput imaging of plants in a growth room. Watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qeXBs7nZk 

May 1, 2021

Lab members Beth and Chester have graduated. We will miss their enthusiasm and drive!

April 12, 2021

Jennifer received an award to support transitioning her BIOB 318 Biometry textbook to free, open resources to support student access to education at MSU.  https://trailsmt.org/news/ 

April 5, 2021

Jared received a scholarship to attend the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics this summer. Congratulations! https://si.biostat.washington.edu/suminst/sisghttps://si.biostat.washington.edu/suminst/sisg 

Kira won support for her summer research through the MSU Undergraduate Scholar Program!

March 7, 2021

Aish's review on brassinosteroids and heat stressed is published. Read it here https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/5/2706/htm 

March 3rd, 2021

The Montana Wheat and Barley Committee will host a series of research review panels in cooperation with the Montana State University College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station.

The event, titled “The Future’s Promise in Agriculture,” will take place Wednesday, March 3 beginning at 10:30 a.m., and is open to the public via Zoom. The review will include three 40-minute panels featuring MSU researchers. 

Februrary 23, 2021

Erik was interviewed about his remote sensing work to detect emergence in cereals at the Prairie Star https://www.agupdate.com/theprairiestar/news/technology/msu-student-uses-drones-to-map-barley-emergence/article_62ba2d8e-72db-11eb-a135-2b72b2cca2a4.html 

December 8th, 2020

Erik was awarded a MontanaView remote sensing fellowship! Read more about it here https://www.montana.edu/news/20799/msu-doctoral-student-receives-remote-sensing-fellowship 

November 22nd, 2020

Lab members Jared and Meng have graduated and are both going on the graduate school in the fall. Congratulations to both.

September 28th, 2020

Burak and Beth put in 18+ hours planting (along with a little help from Jennifer) to set up our first large-scale phenotyping experiment. Seventeen hundred plants, 108 genotypes!