Erick Jellen News Today

Plant and wildlife science professor Rick Jellen shared insights from his research and how he views the connection between temples and BYU campus learning spaces in a forum given on May 21 in the Marriott Center.

This BYU professor’s efforts from research for Quaker Oats to mentoring and teaching earned him BYU’s most prestigious faculty award. Read more about Rick Jellen.

This BYU professor’s efforts from research for Quaker Oats to mentoring and teaching earned him BYU’s most prestigious faculty award. Read more about Rick Jellen.

Passed from grower to grower, three new quinoa varieties co‑developed at WSU are helping farmers in Rwanda and other African countries improve nutrition and food security.

Scientists at Brigham Young University and Washington State University have developed a version of the protein-rich quinoa plant that can survive and thrive in the often-harsh growing conditions of Rwanda and other African countries.<br/>

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Quinoa, that nutty sweet seed we curiously refer to as a grain, has shot up the food chain from obscure California-hipster dish to an American culinary mainstay.

BYU researchers are working on cultivating hybridized quinoa strains, whose heat resistant qualities and soil adaptability make for a viable crop in communities where climate issues threaten food security.

As soils across the world become less fertile and more desert-like due to climate change, it’s getting harder for farmers, especially those in...

As soils across the world become less fertile and more desert-like due to climate change, it’s getting harder for farmers, especially those in developing nations, to grow basic life-preserving crops such as corn, wheat and rice.