Peter Hirst, along with colleagues Amanda Dickson and Mark Russell, are welcoming a delegation from The University of Duhok in Northern Iraq for a 2 week visit to Indiana. This is part of an ongoing project to restore traditional cultural (including agricultural) practices. There are many opportunities to interact with the group including an opening[Read More…]
Hello, my name is Gloribel Rosales-Burdin (she, her), I go by Gloribel or Glory, just not Gloria please :D. My strengths are strategic, ideation, learner, developer, and restorative. I am so excited to introduce myself as the new Senior Academic Advisor for Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HORT/LA) at the College of Agriculture. When I am[Read More…]
John Orick, Karen Mitchell, and Pam Fisher set up the Purdue Extension Master Gardener Plant Info to Go Booth at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on July 27. Purdue Extension Master Gardener volunteers will staff the booth to answer gardening and lawn care questions and to help promote the program. The booth, located in the Ag/Hort[Read More…]
Kranthi Varala and his graduate student Xiaojin Wang published a paper in collaboration with three other Purdue faculty: Li L, Garsamo M, Yuan J, Wang X, Lam SH, Varala K, Boavida LC, Zhou Y and Liu X (2022) CAND1 is required for pollen viability in Arabidopsis thaliana—a test of the adaptive exchange hypothesis. Front. Plant Sci. 13:866086.[Read More…]
Many faculty, staff, and graduate students from HLA attended this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in Chicago earlier this week. The department hosted a table at the Graduate Student Recruitment Event. About 20 current, former, and soon-to-be faculty, staff, and students joined Department Head Linda Prokopy for a fun and lively dinner at[Read More…]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide[Read More…]
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