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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Aimee Schulz is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Edward Buckler, adjunct professor of plant breeding and genetics. Her research in the Buckler Lab for Maize Genetics and Diversity examines the plant’s competitive ability.  

Shulz said, “Fieldwork is a whole lot more fun when a phenotyping robot is involved — I can collect data on 6,000+ plants in under half an hour!”

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Yuqing Chen, a doctoral student and the study’s first author, searches for and counts baby oysters attached to shells in trays in Yonkers, New York.

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A new study offers genetic evidence and proof that farmed eastern oysters are adding to and breeding with wild eastern oyster populations in the western and central Long Island Sound.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biodiversity
Luke Stevens ’29

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Major: Food science Hometown: Glens Falls, New York Why did you choose Cornell CALS? Growing up in upstate New York, I was constantly surrounded by a thriving dairy industry. While I initially planned to pursue a traditional engineering degree...
  • Food Science
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