Roy Blunt currently serves as Missouri’s U.S. Senator. Senator Blunt has served in office since 2010 and continues to make an impact on both, rural and urban citizens within the Show-Me state. This past week, Senator Blunt visited Missouri State University’s award-winning Fruit Experiment Station, located on the Mountain Grove campus. Accompanying Senator Blunt was Ms. Sonya … [Read more...] about Senator Roy Blunt visits Darr College of Agriculture’s Mountain Grove Campus
It’s a win for molecular grape breeding. New funding has been approved for a research project that uses genomic technology to create better varieties of grapes faster. The VitisGen2 project led by Cornell University, is a collaboration of 25 scientists from 11 different institutions, including Missouri State University. They are working in multidisciplinary teams to … [Read more...] about Helping to create the next generation of grapes
Dr. Chin-Feng Hwang, professor of agriculture at Darr College of Agriculture at Missouri State University (MSU), Li-Ling Chen, research specialist in the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station at Darr College of Agriculture at MSU, and three students; Surya Sapkota, an MSU/University of Missouri collaborative Ph.D. student, and Jacob Schneider and Will Knuckles, both plant … [Read more...] about Agriculture students present grape breeding research at conference