Lori Hoagland attended and gave a presentation at the North Central Region Technical Advisory Committee Meeting of the National Plant Germplasm System in Ames, IA. In addition to discussing how her lab is using the germplasm collection to investigate how crop domestication has influenced beneficial plant-soil-microbial relationships in tomato, carrot and quinoa, she covered how[Read More…]
The Nemali lab in collaboration with Marion county extension started the first workshop on ‘Home Hydroponics’ at the Artisan Market Place inside 16-Tech Innovation District, Indianapolis on June 23, 2022. The workshops will be conducted on a monthly basis for 20-30 people at a time. Their focus is to train attendees on how to grow[Read More…]
On June 24, Purdue Horticulture Extension hosted the 2022 Purdue Mint Field Day in Fair Oaks, Indiana. The first presentation of the day was Stephen Meyers who talked about the results of various herbicide trials at the research plot. Next, Petrus Langenhoven and Alejandro Rodriguez presented research on the biological approaches to Verticillium wilt management. 5[Read More…]
Department Head Dr. Linda Prokopy has been busy this month! June 1-3, she and other HLA faculty, staff and graduate students (Camila Ulloa Gómez, Steve Hallett, Liz Maynard, Michael O’Donnell, Katherine Pivaral, Aaron Thompson, Ariana Torres, Emily Usher) traveled to Davenport, Iowa for the annual meeting of the Diverse Corn Belt project. Members of this[Read More…]
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