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 about Varala Lab Publishes Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[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 about Emmanuel Cooper and Colleagues Publish Sweetpotato Research[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 about Meyers and Ingwell Labs Publish New Research Article[Read More]
Along with colleagues at Purdue and the University of Duhok in Iraq, Peter Hirst published the paper: M’Sadeq, S.A., F.A. Omer, H.M. Abdullah, N.I.Mohammed, N.S. Mizzouri, M.A. Russell, A.J. Dickson and P.M. Hirst. 2023. The reality of agricultural extension activities in the Nineveh plain region post liberation (2017-2023). Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture. 51:22-36. 10.33899/MJA.2023.142005.1257
Nemali’s lab published a research article in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture titled “Minimizing Escherichia coli O157:H7 contamination in indoor farming: effects of cultivar type and ultra-violet light quality”. The article is open access and available for download at this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.13303.