UMN Headlines: May 2022

"UMN Headlines" shares highlights of recent accomplishments by the University of Minnesota community. The May 2022 installment showcases commencement, the UMN Marching Band performing in Dubai at the World Expo which included two CFANS students, and new research led by bioproducts and biosystems engineering professor Zhenong Jin, PhD, that uses technology to identify crop types early in the season, without entering the field. The video also mentions several CFANS contributions to research including: 

• Solving the Honeycrisp apple ancestry mystery
• Critical benefits of snowpack for winter wheat are diminishing
• Study shows strong influence of external environment on fungal communities in the primate gut
• Using lasers and a long-term experiment to investigate how deer change a forest canopy