On RFD-TV: Yufeng Ge

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Yufeng Ge, associate professor of biological systems engineering, appears live on RFD-TV on March 2, 2021. Ge talks about his research toward better understanding how a plant's genetic makeup, or genome, affects its phenome, or physical and other measurable traits.

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[00:00:00.370]University of Nebraska researchers
[00:00:02.310]are working to develop better crop varieties
[00:00:04.620]by studying how a plant's genetic makeup
[00:00:06.752]affects its physical traits.
[00:00:09.080]Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering,
[00:00:12.510]Yufeng Ge, joins us now
[00:00:15.090]for the latest insight on that research effort.
[00:00:18.090]And thank you very much Professor
[00:00:19.400]for taking the time to chat with us this morning.
[00:00:21.350]If you would, bring us up to speed on your efforts so far.
[00:00:26.310]Yes.
[00:00:27.143]So by 2050, the world will be home
[00:00:30.640]to close to 10 billion people.
[00:00:33.130]And in order to support as a population,
[00:00:35.740]we will need to increase the yield
[00:00:37.792]and improve the quality of our crops,
[00:00:40.500]as well as reduce the amount of resource
[00:00:43.480]required to produce them.
[00:00:45.510]So understanding how the genes of various crops
[00:00:48.810]can contribute to certain performance-related
[00:00:51.780]characteristics like yield, grain quality,
[00:00:55.470]drought tolerance, nitrogen use efficiency and more,
[00:00:59.020]can help producers to increase the yield
[00:01:01.310]and improve the resilience of our agricultural landscapes.
[00:01:06.240]So my work really focuses on advanced technologies
[00:01:09.810]including sensors, robotics and artificial intelligence,
[00:01:13.122]to better understand the relationship
[00:01:15.480]between a plant's genome and a phenome,
[00:01:18.290]and that this information ultimately can be used
[00:01:21.290]to develop crop varieties that produce more better food,
[00:01:25.330]use the less resources,
[00:01:26.720]and are environmentally more sustainable.
[00:01:30.040]Ultimately,
[00:01:30.873]what is the goal of this research effort?
[00:01:34.406]Yes, so historically, trained researchers
[00:01:38.185]relied largely on sight, touch, feel of a plant
[00:01:42.300]to understand the phenotype.
[00:01:44.220]And over the past decades,
[00:01:45.589]we have began using more advanced technologies
[00:01:48.880]such as drones and robots,
[00:01:50.220]and cameras and laser scanners,
[00:01:52.310]and they can measure far greater number of plants
[00:01:54.739]and with higher precision.
[00:01:56.930]And the technology measure may include the leaf structure,
[00:02:00.860]nitrogen content, disease symptoms,
[00:02:03.460]and even root structures that's under the ground
[00:02:06.500]and the various crops and being able to do this
[00:02:09.440]for a range of environments and conditions.
[00:02:13.500]So the research is underway now,
[00:02:15.410]is there a timeline on things
[00:02:17.500]and an ultimate result you hope to accomplish?
[00:02:22.060]Yes, so I would like to share with our audience
[00:02:25.280]the ultimate goal of our research
[00:02:27.820]and I want our audience to imagine a future
[00:02:32.200]that the soil becomes healthier and more productive
[00:02:35.860]and the water becomes purer in the vicinity of our farmlands
[00:02:39.466]and the sky is bluer and air is fresher.
[00:02:44.750]So inventing a process and a technology
[00:02:47.040]that do not only produce more food,
[00:02:49.450]but also improve our environments.
[00:02:51.840]And I think that is ultimate goal
[00:02:53.780]and the long-term goal of our research.
[00:02:56.140]Wonderful.
[00:02:56.973]Well of course for more information,
[00:02:58.050]you could go online to the university's website.
[00:03:00.310]That's casnr.unl.edu.
[00:03:02.720]Professor, thank you very much for joining us.
[00:03:04.750]Again, Professor Yufeng Ge
[00:03:06.910]joining us from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
[00:03:09.900]here this morning.

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