Howdy y’all! Jane here. It’s been quite a rainy week here at yonder Purdue Student Farm. We’ve gotten 3.2 inches of rain so far. And sonically, between the frog calls and rain on the barn roof, the atmosphere tends to make up for all the mud. When it rains this much, you can usually find[Read More…]
The Nemali lab organized the ‘Hydroponics for Everyone’ workshop (paid program) on four Saturdays in June. Community members from many regions of Indiana participated in the program. Participants visited HLA and greenhouses from 9 am to 3 pm each day and learned about environmental requirements (production systems, light, water, nutrients, and temperature) and crop production[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa and collaborators has published an original refereed paper in Plant Growth Regulation entitled “A comprehensive endogenous phytohormone metabolite landscape identifies new metabolites associated with tomato fruit”. In this manuscript they report characterization of endogenous levels of 47 compounds including active plant hormones. Several of this compound has been quantified first time during[Read More…]
Landscape Systems and Design master’s student Mya Hagerty attended the Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) International Conference in Portland, Oregon last week. She presented her in-progress master’s thesis work as a part of the Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop, and was selected as a result of this presentation along with 3 other graduate students (out[Read More…]
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