Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory, home of the Plant Sciences Institute. The 45,000 square foot facility houses research laboratories and business incubator space to facilitate biotechnology research, technology transfer and economic development related to plant science.
The Plant Sciences Institute is housed in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory (1111 WOI Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-1085), which is located north of the communications and molecular biology buildings in the NW corner of the Iowa State University campus.
PSI Faculty Scholar Liang Dong, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, holds a three-inch silicon wafer containing thousands of microscale sensors developed in his Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Biochip Laboratory. The sensors were designed to measure plant and soil nutrients. MEMS and Biochip Laboratory Website
$20 million federal grant launches AI institute for better crops, agricultural production
Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian launches AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA). The latest artificial intelligence tools will allow researchers to develop digital twins of individual crop plants and entire farm fields, helping plant breeders improve crop varieties and farmers boost production. Read More
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Names Carolyn Lawrence-Dill Associate Dean for Research and Discovery
Dr. Carolyn Lawrence-Dill named associate dean for research and discovery for Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Read More
- 1 Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory, home of the Plant Sciences Institute. The 45,000 square foot facility houses research laboratories and business incubator space to facilitate biotechnology research, technology transfer and economic development related to plant science.
- 2 The Plant Sciences Institute is housed in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory (1111 WOI Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-1085), which is located north of the communications and molecular biology buildings in the NW corner of the Iowa State University campus.
- 3 PSI Faculty Scholar Liang Dong, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, holds a three-inch silicon wafer containing thousands of microscale sensors developed in his Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Biochip Laboratory. The sensors were designed to measure plant and soil nutrients. MEMS and Biochip Laboratory Website
- 4 Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian launches AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA). The latest artificial intelligence tools will allow researchers to develop digital twins of individual crop plants and entire farm fields, helping plant breeders improve crop varieties and farmers boost production. Read More
- 5 Dr. Carolyn Lawrence-Dill named associate dean for research and discovery for Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Read More
About Us
The Plant Sciences Institute is dedicated to enhancing Iowa State University's international prominence in the plant sciences.
Our research focus is to understand the effects of genotype and environment on phenotypes (traits) sufficiently well that we will be able to predict phenotype of a given genotype in a given environment (i.e., predictive phenomics)
News & Announcements
Thursday January 20, 2022
Plant Sciences Institute Welcomes Four New Faculty Scholars in Third Cohort
Monday January 10, 2022
Second round of grants awarded in agriculture genome-to-phenome research
Monday November 29, 2021
Two PIRI awards grant $900,000 to support translational artificial intelligence and foster rural innovation
Thursday October 28, 2021
Liang Dong, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to the inaugural Vikram L. Dalal Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering