By Cindy Landrum
Clemson News
Mukhtar will lead a team of researchers in the Southeast — a region already disproportionately affected by the changing climate — studying how heat and drought affect soybeans, from the cellular level to the entire plant (known as single cell to field-based phenomics), and the associated microbial communities and soil. He and scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mississippi State University and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center aim to identify natural biological solutions through the microbiome that allow soybeans to survive and thrive despite extreme heat and drought.