Dr. Krishna Nemali, Associate Professor Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University Thursday February 15th, at 3:30pm, HORT 117 or via Zoom. “Crop Monitoring and Growth-based Automation Using Low-cost Digital Sensors in Controlled Environment Agriculture” Abstract: Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) involves crop production inside protected structures such as greenhouses and indoor farms. These systems enable year-round[Read More…]
Recently, representatives from the Meyers’ Weed Science Lab, Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josue Cerritos, showcased their work at the 64th Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and Southern Weed Science Society (SWSS) Joint meeting in San Antonio, TX. During the event, Jeanine presented a 3-minutes single slide talk titled “Cover crops: a weed management[Read More…]
Two open-access articles involving Mitchell lab participation in the NASA-sponsored ILSRA project directed by former Purdue HLA post doc Gioia Massa, PI, have just become available online: An article entitled “Pick-and-eat space crop production flight testing on the International Space Station” appears in the Journal of Plant interactions, and can be linked to via https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2023.2292220[Read More…]
Ashley Adair explained the importance of having a social media or website presence for small farms in an article published in FarmProgress: How to tell your farm story using social media The LED lighting research of Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani and Dr. Cary Mitchell was published in AgriView: New strategies for Vertical Farming More Productive, less[Read More…]
Purdue Agriculture Communications released two stories on the work of Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Natalia Dudareva, and their labs. “Plant metabolism proves more complicated than previously understood” highlights the recent opinion piece published in Trends in Plant Science with co-author Erich Grotewold (Michigan State University): “Enough is enough: feedback control of specialized metabolism.” “Stop and[Read More…]