Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan are part of a $3.7M project that explores high-tunnel pest management, rural-urban variations in high-tunnel pest management, and creates an online tool for farmers to calculate whether an investment in an integrated pest management strategy or crop diversification will be profitable. This project is led by Elizabeth Barnes in Entomology. …Read more about Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan Part of $3.7M Project[Read More]
Former ESE-HLA graduate Kyle Richardville published the first article from his MS thesis titled ‘Leaf mold compost reduces waste, improves soil and microbial properties and increases tomato productivity’ in the journal Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20022. Co-authors include Lori Hoagland, Amit Jaiswal, Aaron Thompson (HLA), Andrew Flachs (ANTH), Dan Egel (BPP) and Dan…Read more about Former ESE-HLA Graduate Published Article from MS Thesis[Read More]
George Meyer, PhD student in Dr. Josh Widhalm’s laboratory, received a USDA-NIFA predoctoral fellowship award. George will study the metabolic mechanisms evolved by the black walnut tree to resist the phytotoxic effects of its produced allelochemical juglone. George’s proposal is titled “Investigation of metabolic mechanisms underlying juglone resistance.”
Thursday, February 3 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Denise Tieman – University of Florida; Plant Physiologist will present “Improving Tomato Flavor using Biochemistry, Genomics and Breeding Tools”.
Students in Ariana Torres’ lab presented at the 2022 Indiana Green Expo on Feb 25-26. Camila Ulloa presented Economic Tools for Tall Fescue Production (Spanish), Enrique Velasco presented Key drivers for landscape services in the U.S. (Spanish), and Sanchez Philocles gave 2 presentations (English and Spanish) Profitability in the sod in the sod industry: What…Read more about Ariana Torres’ Lab Students Presented at 2022 Indiana Green Expo[Read More]
Jules Janick and Irvin Goldman had a paper published in frontiers in Plant Science. Evolution of Root Morphology in Table Beet: Historical and Iconographic.
The Indiana State Department of Agriculture awarded $459,866 to four projects designed to grow the state’s specialty crop sector. Some of the projects awarded this grant cycle include Increasing Productivity & Consumer Accessibility of Hydroponically Grown Organic Lettuce in Indiana and Improving Drip Irrigation Management for Vegetable and Melon Production in Indiana, to researchers/ extension…Read more about The Indiana State Department of Agriculture awarded $459,866 to projects designed to grow the state’s specialty crop sector[Read More]
Lori Hoagland presented an invited talk at the Organic Horticulture Symposium 2020 (III International Organic Fruit Symposium and I International Organic Vegetable Symposium), which was held online and hosted by the University of Catania. Her talk focused on her lab’s research investigating how changes in soil and root microbiomes induced by soil and crop management practices…Read more about Lori Hoagland presented talk at the Organic Horticulture Symposium 2020.[Read More]