Four members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab (Meyers Lab) presented their research at the 79th Annual Meeting of the North Central Weed Science Society in Kansas City, MO on December 10, 2024: Lidysce Mata – Evaluation of Tolerance in Jack O’Lantern Pumpkin to Group 15 Herbicides (poster presentation) Celia Corado – Potential of[Read More…]
Vera Vuković, Ph.D. student in the Patton lab, placed 1st in the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research poster presentation contest and 3rd in the CSSA, Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research oral presentation contest last week in San Antonio, TX. These presentations focused on her recently published work[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…]
Ashley Adair presented “The Dirt… on soil health, cover crops, and the bottom line” at private applicator recertification programs in Clark, Harrison, and Washington Counties on 11/12/2024. The talk covered soil health, N-credits from cover crops, and organic transition (an unusual topic for a PARP meeting!). Across the three events, Ashley reached approximately 100 farmers.[Read More…]
This week at the Soil Science Society of America in San Antonio, Anna Paltseva presented 3 talks where she explored the public health and socioeconomic impacts of heavy metal contamination in Lafayette, Louisiana soils, discussed the development of urban soil health indicators for resilient ecosystems, and introduced The Urban Soil Guide as a community resource to advance[Read More…]