Last Saturday, the students in Mike Dana’s “Flowers for Color” class spent the day in “The Gardens at Ball” at Ball Horticulture in West Chicago, IL, studying annual ornamental plants. Special thanks to Ball for allowing us to come on a Saturday to their world-class display garden and for providing beautiful weather!
Kathryn Orvis presented two posters at IHC 2002 in Angers France. Role of urban horticulture youth programs in promoting identify exploration among inner city youth: A case study for Felege Hiywot Center (FHC) Authors: T. Nzaranyimana, K. Orvis and M. Russell Three Dimensional Models for Teaching in Introductory Horticulture Courses. Author: K. Orvis
The Hoagland Lab is excited to host and start collaborating with Fulbright Scholar Dr. Sherlyn Tipayno to unravel the secrets of soil microbiomes and their connections with sustainable crop production. Say hello to Sherlyn who arrived in West Lafayette this week for her fall term in HLA. Read more about Dr. Tipayno: https://www.fulbright.org.ph/index.php/sherlyn-tipayno
The HLA Weed Science Lab has a new journal article available ahead-of-print in Weed Science. The article is co-authored by current and former members of the lab and features research conducted in collaboration with Red Gold: Dicamba Residue Persistence in Processing Tomato by Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana, Brandi C. Woolam, Nathaly Vargas, Laura Rodriguez,…Read more about HLA Weed Science Lab Published New Journal Article[Read More]
Widhalm laboratory undergraduate student Libby Sorenson presents at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Libby spent the summer working in the Widhalm laboratory as part of the Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) program. She was mentored by HLA graduate student George Meyer to investigate plant resistance mechanisms to the allelochemical juglone.
Over the summer, the Widhalm laboratory members were busy presenting their research across the country. Graduate student Thiti Suttiyut presented his work on shikonin metabolism and helped organize the phytochemical section at Botany 2022 (Botanical Society of America) in Anchorage, Alaska from July 24th – 27th. Graduate student George Meyer presented his work on juglone…Read more about Widhalm Laboratory Members Present at Summer Research Conferences[Read More]
Cale Bigelow shared lawn care advice during drought conditions on Indianapolis’s WTHR 13 News on July 21: https://www.wthr.com/article/life/purdue-turf-expert-discusses-lawn-health-in-extreme-heat-grass-drought-watering-fertilizer/531-401930ee-150f-4dd8-bb03-3bdc700fda05. Krishna Nemali was quoted in this article from the Indianapolis Star on vertical farming in Indiana: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/03/growing-up-massive-new-vertical-farm-opening-in-muncie-to-grow-greens/7360426001/
Kranthi Varala and his graduate student Xiaojin Wang published a paper in collaboration with three other Purdue faculty: Li L, Garsamo M, Yuan J, Wang X, Lam SH, Varala K, Boavida LC, Zhou Y and Liu X (2022) CAND1 is required for pollen viability in Arabidopsis thaliana—a test of the adaptive exchange hypothesis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:866086….Read more about New Paper from Kranthi Varala and Xiaojin Wang[Read More]