Dr. Joshua Widhalm has been appointed Deputy Director of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology. Below is the email sent by Ronald Turco, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, regarding the appointment. Purdue University’s Center for Plant Biology (CPB) is pleased to announce that Dr. Josh Widhalm, associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture[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…]
Members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab attended the 78th Annual Meeting of the North Central Weed Science Society on December 11-14, 2023 in Minneapolis, MN and delivered a total of five presentations: Use of Silage Tarps for Early-Season Weed Management in Small-Scale Potato Production (poster), presented by Josue Cerritos. Response of Dormant Peppermint[Read More…]