Chris Reberg-Horton
Professor
Cropping Systems
Faculty
3322 Plant Sciences Building
Dr. Reberg-Horton grew up in Fairview, North Carolina, a small mountain community. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Reberg-Horton earned his M.S. from the University of California, Davis, where he worked on crop modeling in the Department of Agronomy. After working with Cooperative Extension in California and North Carolina, Dr. Reberg-Horton returned to graduate school at NC State under Dr. Nancy Creamer. Dr. Reberg-Horton’s thesis topic looked into the possibility of developing cereal rye to be more allelopathic to improve weed control from this common cover crop. Following graduation, he took a position with the University of Maine as an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, where he worked with dairy farmers on grain and forage production.
Currently, Chris co-leads the Precision Sustainable Agriculture network consisting of on-farm and on-station experiments that utilize the latest developments in sensors, IoT platforms, and Machine Learning to collect and standardize field data from a wide range of agricultural environments. The network operates in 25 states and has more than 120 locations each year. Chris also serves as the Platform Director for Resilient Agricultural Systems at the Plant Sciences Initiative at NC State University. As such, he supports teams addressing climate change, food security, and the use of new technologies for adaptive management of farms.
Publications
- Genetic and environmental drivers of legume cover crop performance: Hairy vetch, CROP SCIENCE (2024)
- Spaceborne imaging spectroscopy enables carbon trait estimation in cover crop and cash crop residues, PRECISION AGRICULTURE (2024)
- Addressing biases in replacement series: the importance of reference density selection for interpretation of competition outcomes, WEED SCIENCE (2023)
- Addressing biases in replacement series: the importance of reference density selection for interpretation of competition outcomes, OpenAlex (2023)
- Addressing biases in replacement series: the importance of reference density selection for interpretation of competition outcomes, OpenAlex (2023)
- Biochemical composition of cover crop residues determines water retention and rewetting characteristics, AGRONOMY JOURNAL (2023)
- Breeding allelopathy in cereal rye for weed suppression, WEED SCIENCE (2023)
- Chemical differences in cover crop residue quality are maintained through litter decay, PLOS ONE (2023)
- Using structure-from-motion to estimate cover crop biomass and characterize canopy structure, FIELD CROPS RESEARCH (2023)
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Shift Community Composition of N-Cycling Microbes and Suppress Soil N2O Emission, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (2022)