agronomy

"The results of our study are part of a growing trend to integrate advanced technologies into agriculture to achieve sustainability goals," resumes Benoît Mercatoris, co-author of the study and agronomy researcher at ULiège.

She is the founder of a not-for-profit organisation to help feed those in poverty and has a PhD in agronomy.

Africa's rice imports represent about a third of the rice traded on the global market, said Shen Yuan, a professor of agronomy at Huazhong Agricultural University and lead author of the article.

He managed an NSF-funded project that brought together interdisciplinary teams of researchers in fields as disparate as agronomy, nuclear imaging, and polar science to examine barriers to data sharing.

He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agriculture at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and a Ph.D. in agronomy from North Dakota State University.