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How a College Football Rivalry Inspired a Plant Breeder

August 09, 2022


Sarah Jones is a PhD student in Plant Breeding in the Soynomics group at Iowa State University and a 2022 National Association of Plant Breeders Borlaug Scholar. Studying with Dr. Danny Singh, she researches phenotyping strategies to improve drought tolerance in soybean. She sits down with Marc Zienkiewicz at the NAPB annual meeting in Ames, Iowa, this week to talk about her work and how football and a carrot inspired her to be a plant breeder.


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