The Future of Agriculture

MSU’s renowned plant researchers are collaborating on solutions to grow more abundant, nutritious and resilient plants that will feed a growing population and adapt to a changing world.

June 12, 2023

With the latest research and techno?logical innovations, scientists at MSU are working together to help meet pressing future challenges, including a projected 50% increase to the global population in the next century, and extreme weather anomalies that are expected to continue and worsen.

Teams led by Spartan scientists Bruno Basso, Seung Yon “Sue” Rhee, Federica Brandizzi, Felicia Wu and Phil Robert?son focus their research on areas such as  using high-tech solutions to increase crop yields, improving plant nutrition and resilience, reducing threats to our food supply and uncovering hidden ways to improve farming. 

Agriculture looks nothing like it did when Michigan State was founded as the nation’s first institution to teach scientific agriculture 168 years ago. Thankfully, MSU scientists have the next 168 years in mind.

 

DID YOU KNOW?
MSU’s 5,200-acre campus is outfitted with research laboratories, greenhouses and trial farms, and is home to one of the highest concentrations of plant scientists in the world.