Exploration of Salt-Tolerant Germplasm to Increase Specialty Rice Production in South Carolina - Gursewak Singh Independent Domestication of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Fruit Revealed by Cucurbitacin and Volatile Compound Profiling - Eun Jin Lee Evaluation of watermelon and Citrullus crop wild relatives for resistance to whiteflies and whitefly transmitted viruses - Alexander Luckew Development of Specialty Pumpkin Cultivars with Potential to be Released for Organic and Conventional Resilient Cropping - Angela Linares Ramirez SSR Marker Development and Fine Mapping of Linkage Group 2 Eastern Filbert Blight Resistance from ‘Georgian OSU 759.010’ - Brianna Heilsnis Enhancing the Fruit Set of NJ BP1-1 Beach Plum (Prunus maritima) - Megan Muehlbauer The wonderful world of worms: Microbiota of rabbit manure vermicompost at different maturities - Amanda Birnbaum