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Thanks to a new study led by Nebraska U, the official turfgrass of the 2022 World Cup may soon assist another goal: growing crops that yield more food with less fertilizer.

Through a decade-long project supported by Conagra Foods, a Nebraska research team led by David Holding has naturally bred new popcorn varieties that outperform today’s most popular kernels in their intrinsic nutritional value and taste.

IANR researchers have found that consumption of a new popcorn variety developed using conventional breeding techniques by David Holding, a professor with the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, has a notably beneficial effect on the human microbiome.