Author: Mollie Rappe
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New Grants Support Microbiome and Resiliency Studies
![Foreground: grassland with native flowers. Background: three metal and tarp structures with dark clouds overhead.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/RainshelterGrassland-1.jpg)
New Grants Support Microbiome and Resiliency Studies
![Josip Simunovic (left), Pablo Coronel, Michael Druga and Amanda Vargochik (right) at the 2015 Edison Innovation Awards.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Simunovic_Edison2015.jpg)
The Economic Impact of Microwave Processing: From Greene County to Kenya
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Grunden Named Assistant Director of NCARS
![Three different varieties of sweetpotatoes with different skin colors.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sweetpotatovarieties.jpg)
‘Map’ of Sweetpotato Genome to Improve Breeding Efforts
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Using Leaf Fungi to Improve Crop Resilience
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CALS Researchers Return to the Bench and Field
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Faculty Focus: Ferket Works with Companies to Improve Poultry Health and Growth
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Low-Cost Cameras Could Be Sensors to Remotely Monitor Crop Stress
![Seedlings with mutations in genes involved in making a plant growth hormone have curly cotyledons, the first two “leaves” of a plant shoot, or short roots. (Labeled seedlings on black)](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Rooty1.jpg)