Ariana Torres will attend the S1087 USDA-NIFA multi-state research meeting in Savannah, GA on Feb 22-25.
HORT 49100 Bedding Plant Production students are working with the crops that are in production in the HLA greenhouse. These will become part of the Horticulture Club Plant Sale to take place during Purdue’s Spring Fest on April 15. This is experiential learning for a good cause! Thank you HORT 491 students!
Lauren Harmon, an undergraduate HLA student working with the Widhalm Lab, has been awarded $500 from the Purdue College of Agriculture’s Office of Academic Programs to offset the cost of her undergraduate research project. Congratulations Lauren!
New paper from the Hoagland Lab led by former graduate student Narda Trivino, titled ‘Carrot genotypes differentially alter soil bacterial communities and decomposition of plant residue in soil’, was published in the journal Plant and Soil (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05892-0). The long-term goal of this research described in this paper is to develop new carrot cultivars with better…Read more about Hoagland Lab Published New Paper[Read More]
Four HLA members attended and presented research at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia January 30 to February 2: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Cultivars. Emmanuel Cooper. Poster. Ethofumesate Resistant Annual Bluegrass in Oregon Grass Seed Production Systems. Vera Vukovic. Poster. Using Black Soldier…Read more about HLA Members Present at Annual WSSA Meeting[Read More]
Congratulations to Kranthi Varala and Celina Gomez for receiving 2023 AgSEED grants. Kranthi Varala’s project is “Improving oil content and composition of Camelina seeds through overexpressing novel regulators of lipid biosynthesis.” Wenjing Guan and Petrus Langenhoven are co-PI’s for this project. Celina Gomez’s project is “Using a Citizen Science Approach to Strengthen Research and Extension…Read more about HLA Faculty Received 2023 AgSEED Grants[Read More]