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With the use of computer imaging and mask region convolutional neural network (Mask-RCNN), researchers, including BBE assistant professor Ce Yang, have been able to detect the fungus disease of Fusarium head blight (FHB) with more rapid recognition and greater accuracy. This study shows that rapid detection of FHB in wheat spikes could lead to breeding resistant cultivars. 

BBE researcher and associate professor Brett Barney works with MnDRIVE to explore replacing traditional petroleum-based plastics and polymers with bio-based alternatives. Read the full story from Inquiry.

A review written by BBE researcher Chis Lenhart, grad student Brad Gordon, and contributing author Olivia Dorothy has been recognized by peer-review journal, Water, as an editor's choice article. Read the full review on nutrient retention in floodplains. 

BBE researcher Bo Hu is working with farmers to find a more stable system that can provide economic incentives for them to run smaller scale anaerobic digester systems. Read the full story here. 

BBE faculty member Abdennour Abbas’s startup company has raised $1.5 million in equity capital from investors and aims to raise around $10 million more in 2021. Read the full article in the Star Tribune here. 

BBE researcher Adriana Alvarez De la Hoz published a report on the use of microalgae as a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers that pollute the environment. Read the Minnesota Daily's article. 

BBE Professor Jason Hill's 2019 study is featured in a new article in National Geographic that highlights work on environmental justice and air pollution. Read the full article.

Find out how tech has, hasn’t, and can aid in ag risk management in a new paper in Nature Reviews co-led by BBE faculty member Zhenong Jin.

BBE faculty member Abdennour Abbas’s startup company launches a face mask it says can kill the coronavirus. View the full story here. 

Abdennour Abbas and his team at a textile startup company are creating face masks engineered to kill viruses like COVID-19.