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Jeffrey J. Volenec

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1979
Bioenergy crop production and managementPlant nutrient uptake and metabolismSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsRuminant Nutrition and Digestive PhysiologyCrop Yield and Soil Fertility

Publications

203

Citations

5,719

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

48

Publishing since 1979

Research summary
AI-generated

Jeffrey J. Volenec studies forage and bioenergy crop plants, focusing on how species like switchgrass, alfalfa, and warm-season grasses grow, use nutrients, and produce biomass, including on marginal farmland not suited for typical row crops. His recent work also includes building open data platforms and knowledge graphs to help researchers share and analyze forage and cropping system data to improve resilience to environmental stress.

Forage and bioenergy crop productionPlant nutrient uptake and carbon metabolismMarginal land use for biomass cropsGenetics of switchgrass flowering and yield traitsAgricultural data sharing and knowledge infrastructure

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, with a peak around 2020 followed by a gap in 2022 and a lower, more modest pace of output in recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 7 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 12 publications12202021: 9 publications21222023: 5 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 5 publications252026: 5 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Frontiers in Plant Science×5
  • Elsevier eBooks×4
  • GCB Bioenergy×3
  • Purdue University Research Repository×3
  • CSA News×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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