Dr. Lori Hoagland has received the 2025 Seed for Success Acorn Award, which honors Purdue researchers who secure external grants of $1 million or more. She and co-investigator Dr. Ankita Raturi (ABE) earned a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for their project, TOMI3: Bringing Our Insights to the Farm[Read More…]
Dr. Lori Hoagland, Brenton Smith, Miné van der Berg, and Rosa Cossio from Purdue travelled to the Colca Valley in Peru with three professors from Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (UNSA) Dr. Dennis Macedo, Dr. Victor Hugo Casa Coila, and Dr. René Gonzalo Quispe Castro. The team visited their research plots in three different communities[Read More…]
Former visiting scholar Leilei Zhang published the first paper from the research she conducted as an intern in the Hoagland Lab investigating how nanoplastic contamination in soils can influence plant-soil-microbial feedbacks. Results of this study will help scientists develop solutions to this growing problem. “The combination of hyperspectral imaging, untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics highlights a[Read More…]
Members of the Hoagland Lab attended the ASA, CSSA & SSSA Tri Society Meeting 2024 in San Antonio, Texas: Henrique Petry presented his talk “Understanding the impact of tomato domestication on rhizosphere metabolites and root microbiomes”, and his poster “Impact of nanoplastics on rhizosphere microbiomes and rhizosphere metabolites in tomato and lettuce.” Lily Berry Presented[Read More…]
Several HLA faculty members were recently featured in the media. Purdue’s College of Agriculture highlighted the recent grant for Dr. Lori. Hoagland’s TOMI Project: Purdue-led TOMI project receives $3.5M grant to turn a decade of data into new tools and strategies for tomato farmers Purdue’s College of Agriculture also featured Dr. Ariana Torres’s work on[Read More…]
HLA Professor Lori Hoagland and her team received $3.5M from the NIFA OREI program to continue working on their Tomato Organic Management and Improvement (TOMI) project. This is the third round of funding the team has received for their project aimed at developing new ways to control foliar diseases in tomato. In TOMI3, they will[Read More…]
HLA professor Lori Hoagland traveled to Chivay, Peru to meet with the advisory panel for the Arequipa Nexus Institute’s Phase 3 research and engagement projects. The goal of the projects is to help the people of the Colca Canyon become more productive and sustainable by transitioning to organic agriculture, improving alpaca fiber quality, and developing[Read More…]