Welcome Scheska Villier, a new visiting scholar in Dr. Ariana Torres Lab. Scheska is from Haiti and will working on the economic feasibility of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in high tunnel production.
Thursday, February 10 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Shinsuke Agehara – University of Florida; Assistant Professor of Horticulture.
Congratulations to Michael Mickelbart, Kathryn Orvis, and Joshua Widhalm for receiving 2022 AgSEED grants. Michael Mickelbart’s project is “Improving maize water-use efficiency via stomatal traits.” Kathryn Orvis’s project is “Urban Farming Entrepreneurship Program: Providing minority youth entrepreneurship training to increase employment and food access.” Joshua Widhalm’s project is “Investigating chloroplast thievery in photosynthetic sea slugs…Read more about HLA Faculty Received 2022 AgSEED Grants[Read More]
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]
