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 Agronomy Research Areas

Cropping Systems and Plant Nutrition

    Cropping systems are at the heart of agriculture. Faculty and students create and develop management systems that enhance crop production and economic efficiency related to crop, soil, and surroundings for the agriculture producer.
    • Crop Physiology
    • Soil Physical Properties
    • Crop Management
    • Soil Fertility
    • Applied Meteorology
    • Spatial Technologies

+ Faculty in this Research Area

Sylvie M. Brouder sbrouder@purdue.edu (765) 496-1489 Plant Mineral Nutrition
James Camberato jcambera@purdue.edu (765) 496-9338 Soil Fertility
Shaun N. Casteel scasteel@purdue.edu (765) 494-0895 Soybean Extension Specialist
Richard H. Grant rgrant@purdue.edu (765) 494-8048 Agricultural & Applied Meteorology
Keith D. Johnson johnsonk@purdue.edu (765) 494-4800 Forage Management
Robert L. Nielsen rnielsen@purdue.edu (765) 494 4802 Corn Production
Lee E. Schweitzer lschweitzer@purdue.edu (765) 494-4789 Plant Physiology
Lori Unruh Snyder ljsnyder@purdue.edu (765) 496-3204 Forage and Crop Management
James J. Vorst jvorst@purdue.edu (765) 494-6374 Crop Management
Tony J. Vyn tvyn@purdue.edu (765) 496-3757 Cropping Systems


Turf and the Urban Interface

    Research and education in this area at Purdue is concentrated in two areas: 1) the science of residential and recreational turfgrass management, and 2) the environmental control of septic systems.

    • Turfgrass Science
    • Residential Waste Management

+ Faculty in this Research Area

Cale A. Bigelow cbigelow@purdue.edu (765) 494-4692 Turfgrass Science
Yiwei  Jiang yjiang@purdue.edu (765) 494-0651 Turfgrass Physiology
Zachary J. Reicher zreicher@purdue.edu (765) 494-9737  Turfgrass Science


Genetic Improvement of Economic Crops

    Graduate research and education in Genetic Improvement of Economic Crops within the Agronomy Department at Purdue uses both basic and applied science to study how genes affect the growth of plants.

    • Structural Genomics
    • Functional Genomics
    • Computational Genomics
    • Comparative Genomics
    • Plant Breeding

+ Faculty in this Research Area

Joseph M. Anderson janderson@purdue.edu (765) 494-5565 Plant Molecular Genetics
Rebecca W. Doerge doerge@purdue.edu (765) 494-6030 Genomics, Quantitative Genetics
Gebisa Ejeta gejeta@purdue.edu (765) 494-4320  Sorghum Genetics and Breeding
Thomas Housley thousley@purdue.edu (765) 494-4792 Plant Physiology
Karen Hudson kkaczoro@purdue.edu (765) 494-8057 Plant Molecular Genetics
Scott A. Jackson sjackson@purdue.edu (765) 496-3621 Soybean Genomics and Mapping
Jianxin Ma maj@purdue.edu (765) 494-6512 Comparative Plant Genomics/Soybean Genetics
Herbert W. Ohm hohm@purdue.edu (765) 494-8072 Wheat and Oat Genetics 
Torbert Rocheford torbert@purdue.edu (765) 494-9243 Maize Genetics, Genomics
Steven Scofield scofield@purdue.edu (765) 494-3674 Plant Molecular Biology
Daniel B. Szymanski dszyman@purdue.edu (765) 494-8092 Plant Molecular Genetics 
Mitch Tuinstra mtuinstr@purdue.edu (765) 494-9093 Maize Genetics and Plant Breeding
Jeffrey J. Volenec jvolenec@purdue.edu (765) 494-8071 Forage Physiology
Cliff F. Weil cweil@purdue.edu (765) 496-1917  Maize Genetics, Genomics


Environmental Soils and Landscape Processes

    Research and education in this area focus on processes and development of measures to control soil erosion and contamination of soil and water from organic and inorganic sources .   Studies occur at scales that range from the atomic to study molecular bonding to the atmosphere using remote sensing to study entire landscapes.  

    • Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soils
    • Soil Remediation
    • Remote Sensing of Soil Resources and Earth Observations
    • Soil Erosion
    • Soil Classification, Mapping, Survey
    • Soil Chemistry/ Mineralogy
    • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
    • Nanotechnology
    • Waste Management

+ Faculty in this Research Area

Laura Bowling bowling@purdue.edu (765) 494-8051 Watershed Hydrology
Melba Crawford mcrawford@purdue.edu (765) 496-9355 Earth Observation/Director of LARS
John G. Graveel jgraveel@purdue.edu (765) 494-8060 Environmental Soil Science
Kevin Gurney keving@purdue.edu (765) 494-5982 Biogeochemistry
Gary C. Heathman gheathman@purdue.edu (765) 494-8683 Water Resources Unit
Chi-Hua Huang chihua@purdue.edu 765) 494-6143 Soil Erosion & Water Quality
Brad C. Joern bjoern@purdue.edu (765) 494-9767 Nutrient Management Planning
Cliff T.Johnston clays@purdue.edu (765) 496 1716 Soil Inorganic Chemistry/Mineralogy
Eileen J. Kladivko kladivko@purdue.edu (765) 494-6372 Soils Physics & Soil Management
Linda S. Lee lslee@purdue.edu (765) 494-8612 Environmental Organic Chemistry
Cindy H. Nakatsu cnakatsu@purdue.edu (765) 496-2997 Molecular Microbial Ecology
Dev S. Niyogi climate@purdue.edu (765) 494-6574 Regional Scale Climatologist
L. Darrell Norton norton@purdue.edu (765) 494-8682 Soil Erosion
Phillip R.Owens mailto:prowens@purdue.edu (765) 494-0247 Soil Geomorphology
Elizabeth Pappas bets@purdue.edu (765) 494-6596 Soil and Water Quality
P. Suresh C. Rao pscr@purdue.edu (765) 496-6554 Soil Physics, Water Quality
Darrell G. Schulze dschulze@purdue.edu (765) 494-8062 Soil Mineralogy
A. Paul Schwab pschwab@purdue.edu (765) 494-8062 Environmental Soil Chemistry
Douglas Smith drsmith@purdue.edu (765) 494-0330 Nutrient Fate and Transport
Gary C. Steinhardt gsteinhardt@purdue.edu (765) 494-8063 Soil Genesis, Soil Management
Diane Stott dstott@purdue.edu (765) 494-6657 Soil Microbiology
Ronald F. Turco rturco@purdue.edu (765) 494-8077 Soil Microbiology, Biochemistry
George E. Van Scoyoc gev@purdue.edu (765) 494-5115 Soil Chemistry
Qianlai Zhuang qzhuang@purdue.edu (765) 494-4773 Biogeochemical Gas Modeling
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