{"id":34,"date":"2018-12-11T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:44:36","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #c7a418;font-size: 24pt\"><strong>Welcome to the Hoagland Soil Microbial Ecology Lab<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_549\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Sky garden at Eskanazi Hospital in Indianapolis\" width=\"439\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/hoaglandlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/03\/IMG_0887-1568x882.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sky garden at Eskanazi Hospital in Indianapolis<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nThe long\u2011term goal of our lab is to advance the growth and long\u2011term sustainability of local specialty crop production systems, including vegetables, herbs, and fruit. Diversifying regional agriculture with high\u2011value crops and integrating production into urban environments can create new economic opportunities, improve human health and well\u2011being, and deliver a wide range of environmental and social benefits. Realizing these benefits, however, requires farmers to overcome significant challenges: degraded or contaminated soils, the need for sustainable nutrient management, rapidly evolving pathogens, and the pressures of a changing climate. Farmers also need crop varieties that are well adapted to local conditions and capable of producing safe, nutritious, and distinctive products for the local marketplace.\r\n\r\nTo help farmers meet these challenges, our lab investigates <strong>soil microbial ecology<\/strong> and <strong>beneficial plant\u2013microbial interactions<\/strong>. Soil microbial communities drive essential agroecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, pathogen suppression, and pollutant detoxification. Many microbes also form intimate associations with plants, enhancing nutrient acquisition and increasing resilience to pathogens and abiotic stresses\u2014including heavy metals, micro\u2011 and nanoplastics, drought, salinity, and heat.\r\n\r\nRecent advances in genomic tools have dramatically expanded our understanding of the diversity and abundance of soil and plant microbiomes. Yet, we still know little about how individual microbial taxa evolve and proliferate in agricultural systems, or how they mechanistically influence plant health and performance. By addressing these knowledge gaps, our lab is helping farmers identify practical strategies to foster beneficial microbes on their farms\u2014reducing input costs, improving the safety and nutritional quality of produce, and contributing to a healthier environment.\r\n\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Hoagland Soil Microbial Ecology Lab The long\u2011term goal of our lab is to advance the growth and long\u2011term sustainability of local specialty crop production systems, including vegetables, herbs, and fruit. 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