KANNAPOLIS — It’s easy for Ken Lingafelt to feel like a conductor sometimes. He’s currently in the midst of one of the most extensive orchestrations of his life. Lingafelt, along with his small team at Kannapolis Retail Ventures, is leading the development of a major portion of Kannapolis’ formerly dormant […]
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Powerful pennycress: Dr. Sedbrook’s research team is transforming a weed into a crop – News
Though farmers consider pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) nothing more than a weed, Illinois State Professor of Genetics Dr. John Sedbrook is working to change their perspective—and the plant itself. Sedbrook and his student researchers in the School of Biological Sciences are genetically modifying pennycress as part of a multistate, multi-institutional effort […]