Research Project Archive

The Central Texas Native Seed Project (CTNSP) is a research and development project that was formed to provide native seed sources to restore plant communities that have been disturbed in central Texas. This project is part of the Texas Native Seeds Program, a statewide collaborative effort organized by private landowners, the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research...

Dairy is an important industry, especially for North Central Texas. Our Center’s research focuses on numerous aspects of dairy production, from forage production, cow nutrition, cow comfort, to environmental challenges. There are many opportunities to learn more about dairy and cows through educational events and monthly articles found under Texas Dairy Matters.  

We are developing innovative and practical processes for enhancing sustainability in water and energy at agricultural industries through the Environmental Engineering research program. We deal with sustainable food, energy, and water at concentrated animal feeding operation dairies nearby, hope to extend this program to swine and poultry farms, and municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities in national...

Our research focuses on cultivated, rangeland and native grasslands. These include savannas in Texas, South America and Africa. The particular focus is legumes, whether herbaceous, shrubs, or arboreal. Herbivores play a central role, especially insects, birds or ruminants as they interact with soils, hydrology and plants.

The peanut breeding and genetics program in Stephenville has a rich history dating back over 75 years. Today we are focused on using the latest technologies to produce improved peanut cultivars. We concentrate on cultivated peanut variety development, wild species gene introgression, trait enhancement, and germplasm maintenance. The first certified Spanish variety was released from...

The Genomics and Microbiology Program is diverse, with projects centered on bacteria, archaea, and eukaryota, ranging from studies on single genes or organisms to studies on whole genomes and metagenomes.  Most of our research projects are student-led. Many research projects involve some combination of genomics or metagenomics followed by bioinformatics to unravel the big data...

Throughout the last 35 years our Entomology program has addressed producer problems arising from pest pressure on field crops, and lately,  we have focused on the bermudagrass stem maggot and red imported fire ant. Insect imagery is a separate facet of the work and focuses on dragonflies, though many other species are photographed as well.