Paul B. DeLaune Data-verified

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Professor and Department Head

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-03-16

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Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences

25 h-index 105 pubs 2,263 cited

Biography and Research Information

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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

  • Summer cover crop mixes: Part 2—Weed suppression and early cash crop performance (2025)

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