The USDA-NIFA grant will support a 32-person research team at 12 institutions co-directed by Renee Threlfall and Margaret Worthington of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator at the Yale School of Medicine.
While producers apply nitrogen fertilizer to their crops, they can’t always keep nutrients in the soil for maximum efficiency, often losing them into the atmosphere or water supply.