Karen Mitchell, Consumer Horticulture Extension Specialist, provided insights in an NPR article titled “New hardiness zones won’t change much, but Indiana gardeners try out new plants.” Her contributions offer valuable perspectives on the impact of changes to Indiana’s hardiness zones and how Indiana gardeners are adapting. The article includes an interactive map showing the dramatic…Read more about Karen Mitchell Interviewed about New Hardiness Zones[Read More]
Ada Martinez Ayala and Marian Luis (postdocs in Hoagland Lab) attended the Great Lakes Expo: Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market held in Grand Rapids, MI on December 5-7, 2023. They attended topics related to soil health, greenhouse vegetable production, disease and insect pest management, and successful farm practices for obtaining high quality crops.
The 2024 Indiana Horticultural Conference & Expo (IHC) will be January 22-23 at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds in Danville, IN. Anyone interested in presenting specialty crop research or extension is welcome to present a poster, which will be on display for the duration of the conference. Requirements for all posters: Content must be relevant to…Read more about 2024 IHC Poster Session Call for Submissions[Read More]
Dr. Ryan Patrick (Li Lab), Dr. Xing-Qi Huang (Dudareva Lab), and Dr. Natalia Dudareva and Dr. Ying Li have published an research article on the role of dynamic histone acetylation in the diurnal oscillation of floral scents in New Phytologist (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19339). A press release will follow in coming weeks.
Editor’s Note: This story had missing text in last week’s HLA Happenings. Below is the complete text of the story. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Tian Li (Mechanical Engineering), Lisa Mauer (Food Science), and Petrus Langenhoven (HLA) received an Ag-Eng – Strengthening Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering grant. The project titled Self-Cooling…Read more about Petrus Langenhoven and Collaborators Receive Grant[Read More]
Dr. Ryan Patrick and Dr. Russell Julian in Dr. Ying Li’s lab have published a research article “Organ-specific characteristics govern the relationship between histone code dynamics and transcriptional reprogramming during nitrogen response in tomato.” This research work applied a machine learning method to decipher the relationship between genome-wide histone modifications and global gene regulation during…Read more about Dr. Ying Li’s Lab Published Research Article[Read More]
Dr. Ying Li, Dr. Kranthi Varala, and Dr. Jing Gao (from Electric and Computational Engineering) have won the 2023 Agriculture – Engineering Collaborative Projects Competition for their proposal “EpiAwareNet: Integrating Single-Cell Multi-Omics and Deep Learning for Inference of Nitrogen-Responsive Gene Regulatory Networks in Crop Roots”.
Indiana Vegetable Growers Association had an evening meeting featuring melon variety trials at Southwest Purdue Ag Center (SWPAC) on Nov. 29. Dr. Wenjing Guan presented the 2023 melon variety trial results. Dr. Linda Prokopy participated in the meeting and delivered the message from administrators to melon growers about the current search for a plant pathologist…Read more about Dr. Guan and Dr. Prokopy Attended the Indiana Vegetable Growers Association Meeting[Read More]
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