The Purdue Hort Club gathered this week for their holiday party at Dr. Dana’s home for the first time since 2019, COVID having prevented such gatherings over the intervening years. The Dr. Leslie Hafen Memorial Scholarship Award for the Outstanding Senior Hort Club Member was presented to Megan Rach. Club members enjoyed dinner and socializing,…Read more about Purdue Hort Club Held Holiday Party[Read More]
Our team Split Happens played against Spoilermakers II Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 12 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won 2 out of 8 points, placing our team in 6th place. In the Women’s Category, Ashley Adair placed 3rd with handicap game scoring a 250 and placed 5th…Read more about HLA Bowling Team This Week[Read More]
Professor Avtar Handa delivered an invited lecture at the XVII International Conference on the Plant Family of Solanaceae held at Proto Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece on November 5, 2022. The Tittle of his presentation was “Potential and Stability of Tomato Crop-improvement by Transgenic Research: Field evaluation of Isogenic lines Homozygous for the Introduced Transgene”.
The special issue on “Horticultural plant specialized metabolism,” guest edited by Josh Widhalm and Kranthi Varala, was published in Horticulture Research this week. https://academic.oup.com/hr/pages/horticultural-plant-specialized-secondary-metabolism#.Y2_F0MsC_80.twitter
A new paper from the Hoagland Lab, led by former visiting scholar Usama Marghoob, has been published in Frontiers in Microbiology: Diversity and functional traits of indigenous soil microbial flora associated with salinity and heavy metal concentrations in agricultural fields within the Indus Basin region, Pakistan
Emmanuel Cooper, graduate student in the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab, received a Travel Award from the North Central Weed Science Society. The competitive award is given to up to six graduate student attending the North Central Weed Science Society’s Annual Meeting for the first time. Congratulations, Emmanuel!
A group of volunteers planted 325 trees for the 1869 Tree Planting Master Plan at the Purdue Horticulture Park during this year’s Purdue Day of Service. Read more about this year’s Purdue Day of Service: Volunteers Plant 325 Trees During Second Purdue Day of Service
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