{"id":3566,"date":"2023-02-08T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2023-03-03T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T22:23:23","slug":"tarleton-researcher-leads-collaborative-pollination-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/tarleton-researcher-leads-collaborative-pollination-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Researcher Leads Collaborative Pollination Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a team headed by Tarleton State University researcher <strong>Dr. Adam Mitchell<\/strong> $749,923 for the project \u201cPartners in Pollination-Capacity Building for Agriculture STEM Research in Pollinator Conservation on Texas Grasslands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project addresses pollinator conservation in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project fosters opportunities for student learning to increase matriculation rates of students entering agricultural STEM fields or advanced degrees,\u201d said Dr. Mitchell, \u201cincluding funding for six undergraduate researchers, three graduate students, one doctoral student and partial funding for a postdoctoral researcher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long-term goal is to identify pollinator-friendly plants that could be incorporated into seed mixes for restoration and management across agricultural strips, rangelands, restored grasslands and urban working lands including the use of native grasses as supplemental pollen feed for native pollinators as well as drought-tolerant species.&nbsp;<br><br>Co-principal investigators are Dr. Jeff Brady and Dr. Jim Muir of Texas A&amp;M AgriLife Research-Stephenville and John Randall Bow and Dr. Anthony Falk of Texas A&amp;M University-Kingsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo Courtesty of ThisIsEngineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a team headed by Tarleton State University researcher Dr. Adam Mitchell $749,923 for the project \u201cPartners in Pollination-Capacity Building for Agriculture STEM Research in Pollinator Conservation on Texas Grasslands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"large","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/author\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/02\/pexels-thisisengineering-3912947-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 8, 2023","modified":"Updated on March 3, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 8, 2023 9:14 pm","modified":"Updated on March 3, 2023 10:23 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Hands trimming microgreens with scissors.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}