Purdue team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits Web-based tool for plant biologists to discover regulators for their trait-of-interest Kranthi Varala, and 9 co-authors from HLA, published the details of the new web-based regulatory gene discovery tool in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Varala has a patent pending on[Read More…]
The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin[Read More…]
Members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab and the Specialty Crops IPM Lab published their collaborative research in HortTechnology this month. The team investigated the ability of black soldier fly larvae to reduce weed seed emergence in composts created from various substrates. Thank you to all those who helped with this project, including the[Read More…]
