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Research Highlight

Agricultural Effect Research

The effects of UV-B radiation on plants get much more complicated and convoluted when the enhancement of UV-B radiation is accompanied with other changing abiotic and biotic factors such as high temperature and water stress as predicted in global warming. Recent studies show significant crossing effects of UV-B radiation, water stress, high temperature, and CO2 concentration on soybean, cotton, rice, and cowpea.

Our Team

Dr. Wei Gao
Director, Senior Research Scientist, Modeling and Remote Sensing
USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Email: wgao@uvb.nrel.colostate.edu

Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Remote Sensing Application, Research Scientist II
USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Email: zgao@uvb.nrel.colostate.edu

Mr. Bill Smith
Crop Modeling and Remote Sensing Application, Graduate Student
USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Email: smithwk@uvb.nrel.colostate.edu

Affiliated Scientists

Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang
climate modeling, Professor
Illinois State Water Survey, MC-674
Department of Natural Resources
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
Voice: 217-244-6864 Fax: 217-244-0220
Email: xliang@uiuc.edu

Dr. Min Xu
Climate Modeling and Crop Modeling, Research Scientist
Illinois State Water Survey, MC-674
Department of Natural Resources
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7495
Voice: 217-244-0847 Fax: 217-244-0220
Email: minxu@uiuc.edu

Dr. Richard H. Grant
Applied Meteorology, Professor of Agro-micrometeorology
Department of Agronomy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
Email: rgrant@purdue.edu

Dr. K. Raja Reddy
Crop Science, Professor
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Mississippi State University
Box 9555, 117 Dorman Hall
Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Phone: 662-325-9463 Fax: 662-325-9461
Email: krreddy@pss.msstate.edu