Paul B. DeLaune

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High Impact

Professor and Department Head

UA Div. of Agriculture primary University of Arkansas

Faculty Researcher

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences

25 h-index 105 pubs 2,263 cited

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Paul B. DeLaune is a Professor and Department Head in Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. His research focuses on agronomic practices, including the impacts of cover crops, no-tillage systems, and alternative irrigation on soil health and crop productivity, particularly in semi-arid and rainfed cotton production systems. He also investigates the biological nitrogen fixation of cool-season legumes in agronomic systems.

DeLaune's work extends to water quality effects associated with agricultural practices such as cover cropping, grazing, and tillage in long-term no-till wheat systems. His research group also explores microbial communities, including the isolation and characterization of bacterial endophytes from field-grown peanut and the analysis of distinct microbial communities within peanut nodules.

He has published extensively, with a total of 105 publications and 2,263 citations, and holds an h-index of 25. DeLaune is recognized as a highly cited researcher and leads an active research group. His recent work also includes the application of machine learning and image processing for estimating cotton lint yield from UAV imagery.

Metrics

h-index: 25
Publications: 105
Citations: 2,263

Selected Publications

Cover crop biomass estimation using UAV-based multispectral feature fusion and machine learning (2026)

Smart Agricultural Technology DOI OpenAlex
Soil health indicator variability and management sensitivity across soils, bioregions, and agricultural systems (2026)

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Summer cover crop mixes: Part 2—Weed suppression and early cash crop performance (2025)

Agronomy Journal DOI OpenAlex