Staff

sustainable transitions, sustainable turf, urban nature and health, greenspace design

Apple Breeding; Cultivar Development and Commercialization

Lawn water conservation, bentgrass, and low input turf.

tissue culture, plant physiology, SNP genotyping

Cover crops; soil microbial communities; legume crops

Viticulture and Enology, Sustainable fruit production, Outreach & Extension

Plant metabolomics, plant biochemistry, plant-insect interactions

Sustainable Agriculture, Crop Diversity, Nutrient Cycling

Fine Fescue, No-Mow, Breeding, winter survival

Winemaking, Experimental Winemaking, Hybrid Grapes

propagation; education; club advising

Apple Breeding; DNA-informed Breeding; genomewide prediction

Tissue Culture, Potato Breeding, and Cultivar Development

Trait characterization, QTL mapping, RNAseq, Phytopathology

Potato genomics; Diversity; Evolution

quantitative trait locus mapping, haplotype analysis, marker-assisted selection

Low-input fine fescues; Roadside turfgrasses; Lawn water conservation; Bee Lawns

plant physiology, abiotic stress, plant growth regulators

Data Science, Machine Learning / AI, Mass Spectrometry

low-input, wetting agents, irrigation, golf

Nutrient and water conservation, soil microbes

plant breeding, cultivar development

Sustainable fruit production; Apple rootstocks; Edible landscaping; Online teaching

Molecular Breeding, Marker Assisted Breeding, Apple Cider Research

Plant breeding, domestication, floriculture

post-harvest; phylloxera; plant-insect

Plant genetics, turfgrass phenotyping, and drought studies.