Research Interests include:

Bean and soybean cultivar improvement in the ability to nodulate and fix nitrogen.

Rhizobium strain selection for grain, pasture and prairie legumes

Host and Rhizobium tolerance of edaphic stress

Inoculant formulation and production

Rhizobium ecology and diversity/prairie fragmentation

Long distance education

Activities in each of these research areas, and a listing of our collaborators, are detailed on the Rhizobium Research Laboratory Website: www.Rhizobium.umn.edu