Mollie Rappe
![Foreground: grassland with native flowers. Background: three metal and tarp structures with dark clouds overhead.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/08/rainsheltergrassland.jpg)
New Grants Support Microbiome and Resiliency Studies
![Three different varieties of sweetpotatoes with different skin colors.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/07/sweetpotatovarieties.jpg)
‘Map’ of Sweetpotato Genome to Improve Breeding Efforts
![A sandy field of soybeans](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/06/soybeansamplinglocation.jpg)
Using Leaf Fungi to Improve Crop Resilience
![A group of students in a corn field as the sun sets. (From Summer 2019)](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/06/cornfieldwork.jpg)
CALS Researchers Return to the Bench and Field
![A small white box on PVC pipe poles over plots of soybeans in sandy soil.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/06/stresscamsoybeans2.jpg)
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/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/06/rooty1.jpg)
Complementary Mutations: A Rollercoaster of Scientific Discovery
![Rodolphe Barrangou, professor and co-founder of TreeCo, with genome edited poplars.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/06/rodolphebarrangou.jpg)
NC State Spin-off TreeCo To Breed a Better Forest
![A bunch of sweetpotatoes](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/05/sweet-potato-1500x844-1.jpg)
Big Data for Better Sweetpotatoes
![The new greenhouse at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in western North Carolina.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/05/newgreenhouse.jpg)
Topping-off for Tomato Breeding
![Owen Wagner (far left) and other foundational supporters for the Plant Sciences Initiative during the Plant Sciences Building groundbreaking on September 6, 2019.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2020/05/groundbreaking1500x844.jpg)