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Research

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Research in the Department of Crop and Soil Science focuses on agricultural and natural resource issues with emphasis on encouraging and enhancing the sustainable production of agricultural crops and protection of soil and water resources locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The Department conducts basic and applied research in two broad areas: 

• Management of plant resources through genetics, biotechnology, plant breeding, seed science, weed science, and physiology. The goal is to ensure adequate food supplies and other renewable crop resources from sustainable agricultural systems that conserve and protect environmental quality. 
• Soil and water resource management through soil biology, chemistry, physics, and genesis of forest, agricultural, and urban soils. The objective is maintenance and improvement of soil and water quality and recommending resource allocation among competing uses. 

Through campus-based, branch experiment station, and on-site basic and applied research, Crop and Soil Science faculty extend the frontiers of knowledge in improvement, management, production, and utilization of agricultural and natural resources used to produce food, feed, and other renewable resources and in soil and water conservation and improvement. This research includes developing management systems that optimize conversion of natural resources into usable products while maintaining the quality of the environment.

Oregon Invests!

Creating new knowledge and opportunites for learning - principally related to Oregon's agriculture and natural resources - these are the dual jobs of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University Oregon Invests! offers you a wealth of information about the projects and programs in which the College of Agriucltural Sciences is enganged.