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Farmer-Centered AI in Agriculture: Making the Juice Worth the Squeeze

Producers, innovators and investors share insights on responsible artificial intelligence for agriculture. 
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Installation Bridges Playful, Eye-Catching Art With Agricultural Sciences

You’ve heard of the butterfly effect, the idea that a seemingly small event like a butterfly flapping its wings can have large consequences thousands of miles away. NC State designers hope the installation they call The Butterfly Effect have its own rippling influence. 
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N.C. PSI Welcomes Oil-Dri to its Innovation Hub

The global manufacturer and supplier of sorbent products becomes the 21st member of the Innovation Hub in NC State University’s Plant Sciences Building. 
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NC State Grad Student Takes 3D Printed Plants to Center Stage

Stephanie Stewart, a Ph.D. student in biomathematics, shares fresh perspectives from the frontlines of research to advance 3D bioprinting of plants. 
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Dan and Jean Eddleman: Turning Roadblocks Into Stepping Stones

Dan, a College of Engineering alumnus, and Jean, a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumna, want to ‘pay it forward.’ The couple’s three-part planned gift, including the first such gift to the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative, will help support NC State University and its students for years to come. 
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NC State Wages Multi-Front Fight Against Strawberry Disease

N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative affiliates, NC State Extension specialists and other researchers are working on multiple fronts in the fight against a new disease taking a big bite out of North Carolina’s strawberry producers’ livelihoods. 

Microbial partners may help plants respond to higher temperatures

New research suggests the microbiome near the surface of a plant’s roots, known as the rhizosphere microbiome, may play a role in helping crops respond to heat stress. The research team includes three N.C. PSI faculty affiliates: Alex Woodley, Mallory Choudoir and Joe Gage. 
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Harvesting Data for Agriculture

New tech for better drone-based data collection and analysis is helping turn agricultural research stations into farms of the future, and an N.C. PSI team is intent on delivering even more solutions to help farmers put data to work. 
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Mystery Beetle Unmasked

NC State researchers have identified a wood-boring beetle that could threaten the state’s blueberry industry. With no insecticides labeled for use against this pest in blueberries, Lorena Lopez, an entomologist and N.C. PSI affiliate, has started trials to come up with solutions. 
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