Sudip Poudel

Graduate Research Assistant (MS in Environmental Studies)

Sudip is a master’s student at Kentucky State University. He joined our Agronomy Lab in August 2023. Since the beginning of his research in our lab, he has been focusing on various source-sink related experiments in soybean. His research methodology involves manipulating source-sink ratios to better understand resource allocation dynamics within soybean plant systems. Among his projects, he has already published a study on increased assimilate supply in a peer-reviewed journal, Agronomy, under the “Soil and Plant Nutrition” category. In this publication, he identified the seed size determination stage in soybean. In addition, Sudip conducted experiments to determine the most sensitive stages of soybean crops. These experiments involve defoliation treatments in different growth stages to understand how a temporal decrease in assimilates affects pod and seed development. In a nutshell, his research aims to optimize source-sink dynamics in soybeans to enhance both productivity and seed quality.