Many faculty, staff, and graduate students from HLA attended this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in Chicago earlier this week. The department hosted a table at the Graduate Student Recruitment Event. About 20 current, former, and soon-to-be faculty, staff, and students joined Department Head Linda Prokopy for a fun and lively dinner at…Read more about HLA at ASHS[Read More]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest[Read More]
July 26: Turf and Landscape Field Day July 29: Small Farm Education Field Day August 9: Pinney Purdue Vegetable Field Day
Rebecca Traldi is a new postdoc in the department. She will be working closely with Dr. Linda Prokopy on the #Diverse Corn Belt project. She comes to us from the University of Maryland where she just completed her PhD, which focused on measuring the impact of agriculture and land-use change sustainability interventions. Rebecca has previously worked with the…Read more about Welcome Rebecca Traldi![Read More]
Lori Hoagland attended and gave a presentation at the North Central Region Technical Advisory Committee Meeting of the National Plant Germplasm System in Ames, IA. In addition to discussing how her lab is using the germplasm collection to investigate how crop domestication has influenced beneficial plant-soil-microbial relationships in tomato, carrot and quinoa, she covered how…Read more about Lori Hoagland Presented at National Plant Germplasm System[Read More]
The Nemali lab in collaboration with Marion county extension started the first workshop on ‘Home Hydroponics’ at the Artisan Market Place inside 16-Tech Innovation District, Indianapolis on June 23, 2022. The workshops will be conducted on a monthly basis for 20-30 people at a time. Their focus is to train attendees on how to grow…Read more about Nemali Lab Co-Hosted Home Hydroponics Workshop[Read More]
Peter Hirst published a paper over the last week: Chen, Y.; Wang, K.; Zhang, Z.; Ou, L.; Luo, X.; Zhu, F.; Hirst, P.M.; Ao, Y. Phenotypic Variation in Seed Morphochemical and Seedling Traits in Four Chinese Provenances of Xanthoceras sorbifolium. Forests 2022, 13,959. https://doi.org/10.3390/ f13060959
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