Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell were in Seoul Korea May 19-22 for the LightSym2024 international conference where they presented their light-related research with plants. Celina also moderated a session at LightSym.
Purdue Agriculture Communication featured a story on the Varala Lab’s recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Purdue-USDA team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits. The story has also been featured in the US Department of Energy’s University and Stakeholder News.
Celina Gómez and Cary Mitchell along with OptimIA project colleagues from around the USA are in the Tokyo suburb of Kashiwa May 15-19 to visit the Japan Plant Factory Association, give papers about their indoor agriculture research, and to visit several progressive plant factories in that area.
The Hoagland Lab joined the Midwest Microbiome Symposium hosted this year by Purdue from 13th through 15th May at Beck Center. Henrique Petry and Cristian Salinas, both PhD students, presented their posters on nanoplastics effect on tomato and lettuce microbiome and coffee root endophytes response to legume intercropping.
Kayla Grennes, an undergraduate research assistant in the Li Lab, has won the 3rd place in poster presentation in College of Ag in the 2024 Undergraduate Research Spring Conference. Congratulations to Kayla and her mentor Dr. Ryan Patrick in the Li lab!
Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on…Read more about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[Read More]
You’re invited to the Capstone Presentations reviewing internships and work experiences by several of our graduating seniors in various concentrations. These oral presentations are a companion to a written descriptive review of the internship employer. Wednesday, April 24, 1:10 pm in HORT 222. 1:10 – Lara Staton – Light and Fertilizer Impact on Annual Cuttings…Read more about HORT Capstone Presentations (Updated)[Read More]
The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin…Read more about Emmanuel Cooper and Colleagues Publish Sweetpotato Research[Read More]