News – Marty Williams Lab

Hunt for herbicide solution in snap bean reveals master switch for stress resistance (Aug. 5, 2024)

USDA Scientists Honored as AAAS Fellows (Apr. 18, 2024)

Seven Illinois professors elected AAAS Fellow (Apr. 18, 2024)

ACES Researchers honored as 2023 AAAS Fellows (Apr. 18, 2024)

Failure rate of glyphosate (Feb. 1, 2024)

Some new corn hybrids and corn herbicides won’t mix (Feb. 1, 2024)

Making the “SnAP Count : ARS researchers use genetic panel to improve crop quality and marketability (2024)

The Big Show Radio Interview : tolpyralate sensitivity (Jan. 26, 2024)

War Against Weeds Podcast: The Silver Bullet That Wasn’t – see episode Jan. 24, 2024

Researcher finds severe sensitivity to herbicide in corn lines (Jan. 16, 2024)

Genetic sleuthing reveals new weakness in corn’s herbicide armor (Jan. 8, 2024)

Researchers quantify decline in glyphosate control (Jan. 5, 2024)

The silver bullet that wasn’t: Glyphosate’s declining weed control over 25 years (Dec. 5, 2023)

Sweet corn yield at the mercy of the environment, except for one key factor (August 24, 2023)

Facebook Live: Weeding your garden (2023)

Canned, frozen corn industry struggling across US growing regions (July 10, 2023)

Illinois study reveals genetic secrets of America’s favorite snack (June 27, 2023)

Sweet corn hybrid longevity (June 12, 2023)

Sweet corn sweltering in summer heat spells uncertainty for corn lovers (Nov. 11, 2022)

Crop researcher focuses on better food production (Aug. 15, 2022)

Sweet Discovery: U of I research finds potential for sweet corn growers (Aug. 1, 2022)

Climate change expected to help weeds more than corn (July 15, 2022)

Sweet corn research (July 2022)

Climate change demands near perfect weed control in soybean (April 11, 2022)

Corn develops density tolerance over time (Feb. 17, 2022)

Illinois research shows how dicamba could be safely used in sweet corn (Feb. 8, 2022)

Sweet corn yield gain over 80 years leaves room for improvement (Oct. 7, 2021)

Weather variations place more pressure on weed management (Oct. 11, 2021)

U.S. Farm Report Oct. 9, 2021, College Roadshow feature (2021)

Managing weeds in variable weather: insights from data mining (Sept. 30, 2021)

Think climate change is bad for corn? Add weeds to the equation (Sept. 7, 2021)

Growing sweet corn at higher densities doesn’t increase root lodging risk (May 10, 2021)

Variable weather makes weeds harder to whack (Feb. 8, 2021)

Cover crop could solve problems for edamame growers (October 13, 2020)

New planting guidelines could boost edamame profits (March 13, 2020)

Sweet corn growers, processors could dramatically increase yield, profit (Oct. 8, 2019)

Sweetening the deal (Nov. 18, 2018)

Early-killed rye shows promise in edamame (Mar. 7, 2018)

In sweet corn, workhorses win (Jan. 16, 2018)

Getting to know, getting to grow, edamame (Feb. 15, 2017)

Snap beans hard to grow in cover crop residue (Feb. 16, 2017)

Farming becoming riskier under climate change (March 27, 2017)

One step closer to commercial edamame production in the U.S. (Feb. 4, 2016)

I want my edamame (Feb. 8, 2016)

Transgenic sweet corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease (Feb. 17, 2016)

Sweet corn genes related to crowding stress identified (March 15, 2016)

Atrazine alternatives in sweet corn (July 12, 2016)

Edamame waits in the wings: soybean cousin searches for place in U.S. farmland (Sept. 26, 2016)

Research charts a course for increasing edamame acreage (April 30, 2015)

Food and fuel: a model for bioenergy feedstock/vegetable double-cropping systems (May 7, 2015)

Sweet corn ‘stress test’ offers efficient way to identify high-yielding hybrids (Oct. 5, 2015)

Cool beans – Illinois farmer experiments with edamame (Nov. 12, 2015)

Better sweet corn research, better production (Jan. 22, 2014)

Recent herbicides labeled for edamame could mean more U.S. production of the crop (March 17, 2014)

Can sweet corn be grown using less atrazine? (2013)

Tolerating neighbors: competition in sweet corn (March 12, 2013)

Sweeten up your profits with the right hybrids (Jan. 23, 2012)

Disease and weed duo can devastate sweet corn yields (Feb. 29, 2012)

Less competitive sweet corn varieties can result in higher weed pressure (Feb. 20, 2012)

U of I research elevates sweet corn production (Feb. 2012)

A seedy solution to controlling weeds? (Feb. 13, 2012)

Edamame given star role in latest UI Agronomy Day tour (Aug. 17, 2012)

A quarter century of sweet corn observations (Dec. 22, 2011)

A boost to U.S. edamame production (Feb. 2011)