Sarah Kezar's fight to protect millions of acres of U.S. farmland

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Palmer amaranth is a highly adaptable weed that poses a seemingly impossible threat to farmers. One female plant can produce millions of seeds, and when those seeds eventually grow, they threaten a farmer's crop yield and quality and forces them use expensive herbicides in response. Sarah Kezar, Ph.D. student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is using her curiosity, creativity and cutting-edge technology to solve one of the larg…