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Fred Below is a professor of Crop Physiology in the University of Illinois-Department of Crop Sciences. His research focuses on understanding factors limiting crop productivity, particularly corn and soybeans. He developed the 'Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World' and the 'Six Secrets of Soybean Success' as tools to teach farmers and agricultural professionals the value of their individual crop-management decisions. Email fbelow@illinois.edu to reach him.
University of Illinois researchers plant soybeans April 3, only to have a killing frost happen 17 days later. But though the seedlings looked dead, they weren't -- evidenced by later green plants. 'Those cotyledons were green, and at the base of the cotyledon in the stem is what’s called an axillary bud, and that gives a mechanism for regrowth,' Fred Below says. 'Soybean is way more frost-tolerant than we were led to believe.'
SAN ANTONIO – Fred Below has been digging into dirt research for more than 41 years – growing knowledge through huge changes in agriculture. He’s a professor of crop physiology in the University of Illinois-Department of Crop Sciences.
Julie Belschner writes on various agricultural issues; she is the managing editor for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.
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Fred Below is a professor of Crop Physiology in the University of Illinois-Department of Crop Sciences. His research focuses on understanding factors limiting crop productivity, particularly corn and soybeans. He developed the 'Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World' and the 'Six Secrets of Soybean Success' as tools to teach farmers and agricultural professionals the value of their individual crop-management decisions. Email fbelow@illinois.edu to reach him.
University of Illinois researchers plant soybeans April 3, only to have a killing frost happen 17 days later. But though the seedlings looked dead, they weren't -- evidenced by later green plants. 'Those cotyledons were green, and at the base of the cotyledon in the stem is what’s called an axillary bud, and that gives a mechanism for regrowth,' Fred Below says. 'Soybean is way more frost-tolerant than we were led to believe.'
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