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Cover Image, Volume 66, Issue 1
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
csa news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
eISSN - 2325-3584
pISSN - 1529-9163
DOI - 10.1002/csan.20170
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , digging , subsistence agriculture , citation , yield (engineering) , breed , volume (thermodynamics) , computer science , agricultural science , mathematics , geography , library science , biology , zoology , archaeology , engineering , agriculture , mechanical engineering , materials science , metallurgy , physics , quantum mechanics
Cover : “Shovelomics”—digging up mature plants to examine their roots—is a low‐tech method for selecting plants with root phenotypes that will optimize their growth in low‐input environments. Celestina Jochua (pictured here) is a researcher and bean breeder in Mozambique who implemented shovelomics to breed three varieties of phosphorus‐efficient common bean with almost double the yield for subsistence farmers in southern Africa. See story on p. 6. Photo by Jimmy Burridge.