Graduate Students

Flower Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology

Tomato, Gene editing, phytosterols

Plant molecular biology

plant breeding, floriculture, salt tolerance

Apple flavor, cider production, high throughput phenotyping.

Bioinformatics, population genetics, genetic diversity.

plant genetic engineering, microbiology, callus culture

Tansy, gene drive, invasive species and fertility.

Cover crops, rhizobia, organic systems

propagation and production of beneficial, medicinal, edible, and perennial crops; biodynamic horticultural production; regenerative agroecosystems

Integrated pest management, sustainable horticulture and agriculture, and fruit and vegetable production

Plant Breeding, Cut Flower Flax, Flax Germplasm

Woody plants, asexual propagation, nickel deficiency.

Organic farming, agroecology, microbial dynamics, food systems

Cold hardy grape gene expression

Propagation, genetics, conservation

Public garden management, urban agriculture and food production

Flavor and aromatic compounds in apple, soft scald metabolism, plant breeding

Food marketing, agriculture communication, advanced post harvest technics.

Agroecology, Sustainable Cropping Systems, Industrial Hemp, Nitrate Leaching

Winter hardy landscape plants, native flora, Satiny Willow.

Habitat restoration, stormwater, mycorrhizae

Fine fescue, sod, rhizomes, polyploidy

Plant breeding and genetics, disease resistance, resistance gene expression and inheritance

mass spectrometry, software, discovery

plant breeding, metabolomics, international development, domestication

Woody plants, conservation horticulture, landscape horticulture and plant propagation.

Nursery Crop Production

Plant Breeding, Ploidy, Genomics

Auxin biosynthesis, Metabolomics, Mass spectrometry

Hard Fescue, Plant Genetics, Turfgrass Shade Tolerance

Polyploidy, differential gene expression, diversity, bioinformatics

Cold hardiness, grapevine, differential thermal analysis.

Soil conservation, soil health, legume cover cropping methods

Sustainable farming

Population genomics, sequence analysis and plant breeding