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Working with professor Ashley Dowling and doctoral student Thanh-Dat Truong, Luu designed a system to detect, identify and count a large variety of insects in farm fields for early crop management decisions.

Arda Tuhanioglu, a doctoral student, won the General Group category, and Sumanjot Kaur, a masters degree student, won the Protein and Co-Products Group category.

Researchers in Arkansas and Georgia have shown that delicate fresh-market blackberries typically picked by human hands to maintain quality, can now be picked by robots, too.

Arkansas and Georgia researchers developed a robotic hand to pick blackberries

Scott Lafontaine, assistant professor of flavor chemistry, and doctoral student Bernardo Guimaraes are researching the use of Arkansas-grown aromatic rice to broaden the flavor profiles of non-alcoholic beer.

Fayetteville AR (SPX) Apr 27, 2023 - Andy Weirs bestselling 2011 book, The Martian, features botanist Mark Watneys efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. While Watneys initial efforts focus on growing potatoes

U of A students research ways to mitigate streambank erosion and phosphorus runoff into tributaries of the regions water source, Beaver Lake, to keep it safe from algal blooms.

Fayetteville AR (SPX) Apr 27, 2023 - Andy Weirs bestselling 2011 book, The Martian, features botanist Mark Watneys efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. While Watneys initial efforts focus on growing potatoes

U of A researchers presented an abstract at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference suggesting genetically modified rice could grow in the Martian regolith.

New research presented at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the U of A suggests future Martian botanists may be able to grow gene-edited rice on Mars.