Results of University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s 2020 variety trials for proso millet have been compiled and posted on the Nebraska Extension CropWatch website. Variety trials were conducted at two sites in the Panhandle (Cheyenne County and Deuel County) and one in South Dakota (Sturgis). Each site was dryland (rain-fed). At each site, 30 varieties were planted, [.]
BY Chabella Guzman | January 30, 2021
Proso millet research plots at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff. Courtesy Photo
A graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff is in the midst of an ambitious project that he and his advisor hope will produce a set of modern tools for genetic improvement of proso millet.
Rituraj Khound has been a grad student under the supervision of Dipak Santra, alternative crops breeding specialist at the Panhandle Center, since 2018. He hopes to receive a Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics in 2022 from UNL’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.