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Donald
Donald D. Tyler   Ph.D.
Professor

Office: JCK
Phone: (731) 424-1643
Email: dtyler@utk.edu
    Specialty: No-till and precision farming

    Area(s) of Interest:
    • No-till and precision farming
    • Research involves use of no-tillage and precision farming technologies for improved agronomic research to enhance agricultural sustainability.

Recent selected publications

Labbe, N., X. P. Ye, J. A. Franklin, A. R. Womac, D. D. Tyler, and T. G. Rials.  2008.  Analysis of Switchgrass Characteristics Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy.  BioResources 3(4):1329-1348.

West, T. O., C. C. Brandt, B. S. Wilson, C. M. Hellwinckel, D. D. Tyler, et al.  2008.  Estimating Regional Changes in Soil Carbon with High Spatial Resolution.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 72(2): 285-294.

Cochran, R.L., R.K. Roberts, J.A. Larson, and D. D. Tyler.  2007.  Cotton profitability with alternative lime application rates, cover crops, nitrogen rates, and tillage methods.  Agronomy Journal 99:1085-1092.

Donald, P.A., and D. D. Tyler.  2007.  Long-and short-term tillage effects on Heterodera glycines reproduction.  Journal of Nematology 39:27.

Devine, W. D., D. D. Tyler, M. D. Mullen, A. E. Houston, J. D. Joslin, D. G. Hodges, V. R. Tolbert, and M. E. Walsh.  2006.  Devine, W. D.*, D. D. Tyler, M. D. Mullen, A. E. Houston, J. D. Joslin, and M. E. Walsh. 2005. Conversion from an American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) biomass crop to a no-till corn (Zea mays L.) system: Crop yields and management implications..  Soil and Tillage Research 87(1): 101-111.

Devine, W. D., D. D. Tyler, M. D. Mullen, A. E. Houston, J. D. Joslin, and M. E. Walsh.  2005.  Conversion from an American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) biomass crop to a no-till corn (Zea mays L.) system: Crop yields and management implications.  Soil and Tillage Research, paper online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01671987.

Recent grants/contracts

Tyler, D. D., M. E. Essington.  Use of FGD Gypsum to Improve the Productivity and Stability of Highly Erodible Loess Soils.  USDA-ARS MSA.

Tyler, D. D., Burt English.  CERES Switchgrass Variety Evaluation Trial: University of Tennessee.  CERES, Inc..

Tyler, D. D.  Cooperative Soybean Production Agreement.  USDA-ARS.

Womac, A. R., W. E. Hart, D. D. Tyler, B. English, B. Brown.  Harvest Systems for High-Yield Grass Bio-Energy Crops under Southeast US Conditions: Switchgrass.  Deere and Company.

Tyler, D. D., B. English.  Evaluating Carbon Sequestration in Switchgrass.  UT-Battelle, ORNL.

Eash, N. S., F. R. Walker, D. D. Tyler.  Initiating Research and Teaching Collaboration with the University of Lesotho.  UT Ready for the World.