About This Project

The Kentucky/Idaho/Clemson (KIC) Plant Biomechanics Consortium is a collaboration of scientists and engineers forming a mulidisciplinary team who are working together to address the problem of stalk lodging. Stalk lodgning (snapping of plant stems prior to harvest) reduces gobal grain yield by approximately 20% annually. This project is funded by The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). In depth information about the project can be found here.

Videos highlighting the previous work of group members Dr. Daniel Robertson (Univertsity of Idaho) and Dr. Douglass Cook (University of Idaho).