Moriah Bilenky and her lab introduced sheep to Meigs Horticulture Research Farm last week. As part of their livestock integration project, the sheep will graze on annual cover crops.
Purdue Agriculture Communications released two stories on the work of Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Natalia Dudareva, and their labs. “Plant metabolism proves more complicated than previously understood” highlights the recent opinion piece published in Trends in Plant Science with co-author Erich Grotewold (Michigan State University): “Enough is enough: feedback control of specialized metabolism.” “Stop and…Read more about Li and Dudareva Lab featured in two recent Purdue Agriculture Press Releases[Read More]
Purdue Today featured Cary Mitchell and Fatemeh Sheibani’s novel research on LED lighting in vertical farming was on February 21. Their research designed two simple strategies that would increase yield while reducing costs in vertical farming, the fastest growing sector in controlled environment agriculture. Other media outlets picked up the story, including Indiana Public Media.
Thiti Suttiyut, Manoj Ghaste, and Joshua Widhalm along with others from the Purdue Center for Plant Biology published a paper in Horticulture Research entitled “Integrative analysis of the shikonin metabolic network identifies new gene connections and reveals evolutionary insight into shikonin biosynthesis. The paper is available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhab087.