Welcome to the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University! We are a comprehensive academic department conducting research and offering coursework and academic programs in all areas of the plant and soil sciences. Please explore our web site and see the opportunities our department offers! If you have any questions or comments about what you find here, don't hesitate to call or email us. If you are a prospective student wanting a tour and to visit with our faculty, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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In the Spotlight
Texas Tech pouring professionals into Texas’ booming wine industry.
You’ve heard it on the grapevine; the U.S. wine industry isn’t just in California. Nowadays, it seems everyone is producing wines, including the Texas High Plains. In fact, this cotton-dominated region today has the most acreage of wine grapes in the Lone Star state.
Sen. Cornyn Visits Texas Tech, Tours Cotton Research Facility
Sen. John Cornyn toured the university’s Fiber & Biopolymer Research Institute with students and faculty researching the next generation of cotton.
CRP Focus; Texas Tech soil research team receives $480,000 USDA-NIFA grant
A multi-disciplinary team of agricultural scientists from Texas Tech has been awarded a $480,000 grant to study Lubbock area soil microbial communities, looking for key indicators of soil carbon transformations when Conservation Reserve Program land is converted to cropland. The five-year project is being funded under the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.
PSS graduate students excel at Orlando’s Beltwide Cotton Conference
Two graduate students from Texas Tech’s Department of Plant and Soil Science were standout research competitors during last month’s Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Orlando, said officials with the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources today.
Texas Tech University,
Department of Plant and Soil Science,
Campus Box 42122, Lubbock, TX 79409 
806. 742-2838 