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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative

Khot, Zhang share ideas at CIGR Next Leaders Program

December 6, 2019

Lav Khot, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and faculty member at WSU’s Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, and Qin Zhang, director of CPAAS, joined colleagues from around the world…

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Removing plant enzyme could result in faster growth, more food

March 30, 2018

WSU team receives $500,000 grant to study the connection between phosphorylase and photosynthesis, potentially leading to faster growing, larger crops.

Black background with six small plants laid on it. The three plants on the right are almost twice as tall as the three on the left.

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