A study by HLA graduate student Jeanine Arana and faculty Stephen Meyers and Wenjing Guan has been published in HortTechnology. The article evaluates 15 June-bearing strawberry cultivars grown in a two-year plasticulture system using black and white mulch in Indiana. Findings highlight how mulch color and cultivar choice influence yield, runner growth, and winter survival,[Read More…]
Anna Paltseva, invited by the editor of iScience, published a perspective article introducing a framework for participatory urban soil research, followed by a companion piece sharing the backstory of her fieldwork and research approach. She was also recently invited to visit Dr. Gabriel Filippelli’s lab at Indiana University, where she spoke with students about environmental contaminants, community science,[Read More…]
New paper from the Hoagland lab co-led by former post-docs Marian Luis and Amit Jaiswal. The paper titled ‘Deciphering the mechanisms regulating variability in induced systemic resistance among tomato genotypes’ was published in the journal Phythopathology https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHYTO-07-24-0240-R. The team used RNA-seq to determine the molecular basis for these differential responses. Results of this study will[Read More…]