Hansel Minah and co-authors Petrus Langenhoven and Amanda Deering published an article ‘Effect of netting density on the efficacy of produce washing solutions in reducing foodborne pathogenic bacteria from cantaloupe rinds’ in Food Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2025.104806
Dr. Ariana Torres published a paper titled Personal values, motivations and food safety concerns for melon consumers in Indiana US farmers markets in the British Food Journal. The paper introduces an innovative integrated model to better understand the relationship between melons’ attributes, the consequences of their consumption and the personal values that guided consumers’ buying…Read more about Dr. Ariana Torres Published New Paper[Read More]
Professor Avtar Handa has published a refereed paper in CBI Agriculture and Bioscience entitled “SALT TOLERANCE INDEX AND MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMATO F2 SEGREGATING LINES UNDER SALINITY STRESS” with his previous technician Tanya Datsenka and two collaborators from University of Abomey, Cotonou, Benin. This manuscript describe potential developing salt-tolerant genotypes of tomato by crossing a cultivated salt-sensitive…Read more about Dr. Avtar Handa Published Two Papers[Read More]
Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani and Emeritus Professor Cary Mitchell, in collaboration with a colleague at Sierra Space Corporation, published an article in Acta Horticulturae entitled Focused Lighting, an energy-saving strategy for indoor production of young, widely spaced plants. The publication was presented originally at LightSym 2024 in Seoul, Korea, and is part of the proceedings of that every-four-year international lighting symposium….Read more about New Publication from Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani and Dr. Cary Mitchell[Read More]
A new publication co-writtened by Andrew Flachs and Steve Hallett called GM Crops and the Jevons Paradox: Induced Innovation, Systemic Effects and Net Pesticide Increases From Pesticide-Decreasing Crops has been published in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The paper looks at global herbicide data and at Bt cotton in India to describe an irony: in lowering the…Read more about New Publication from Andrew Flachs and Steve Hallett[Read More]
The Nemali Lab has published an article titled “Enhancing phylloquinone levels using ultraviolet-A radiation in indoor farming” in PLOS One journal.
Andrew Flachs (Associate Professor of Anthropology with courtesy appointment in HLA) and graduate student colleagues recently published a paper in Outlook on Agriculture: Skilling and social reproduction. The paper is part of a special issue on farmer learning, and talks about the larger social and environmental contexts in which farmers learn. Dr. Flachs and colleagues…Read more about Dr. Andrew Flachs Published New Paper in Outlook in Agriculture[Read More]
Dr. Jada Powlen and Dr. Cale Bigelow recently published a research article highlighted in the turfgrass industry trade publication Golfdom, entitled “How much nitrogen is needed to establish seeded bermudagrass?“.
HLA Professor Lori Hoagland published a paper with collaborators in the Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture (CIOA) project (https://eorganic.info/group/7645). The paper titled ‘Influence of Organic and Conventional Management Systems on Carrot Performance and Implications for Organic Plant Breeding‘ was published in the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science https://journals.ashs.org/jashs/view/journals/jashs/150/2/article-p65.xml
The third and final chapter of Emmanuel Cooper‘s thesis is now published in the Weed Science Society of America’s Weed Technology journal. Thank you to the crews at the Meigs Horticulture Research Farm and the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center for their support. Thank you to the lab members of the Hort Crops Weed Science Lab. This research was funded…Read more about Hort Crops Weed Science Lab Publishes Sweetpotato Research[Read More]
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