Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Chris Wilson Lab
Led by Chris Wilson · Agronomy
What we study
The Wilson Lab studies how farming practices affect soil health, crop resilience, and ecosystem services using satellite data, field experiments, and computer models. They focus on forages, drought impacts, and sustainable agriculture.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Primed to fail: primed acclimation to water stress can lead to greater disease severity and reduced yields in Sclerotium rolfsii -inoculated cultivated peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.)
2026 · Annals of Botany
Checks if water stress in peanuts primes them to resist later disease and lower yields.
- Split N management and no‐till into herbicide‐desiccated warm‐season perennial grass sod favor cool‐season annual forage establishment
2026 · Crop Forage & Turfgrass Management
Tests if no-till and split nitrogen fertilizer help cool-season forages grow on warm-season grass sod.
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- Nitrogen limitation and species balance trade-offs in C4 grass-legume mixtures: Evidence from the nitrogen nutrition index
2026 · European Journal of Agronomy
- Winter Crops Improve Subtropical Sandy Soil Fertility and Health but not Corn Yield Relative to a Fallow
2026 · Soil Use and Management
Compares chickpeas to cover crops and fallows to see which improves soil health without hurting corn yield.
- Does replacing fallow with winter crops affect corn yield and soil carbon retention in a Florida cropping system?
2026 · Agronomy Journal
Uses crop models to see if replacing winter fallows with chickpeas improves soil carbon and corn yield.
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