Transcriptomic responses underlying host-pathogen interactions between resistant and susceptible Prunus accessions and two Armillaria Root Rot fungi - Stephen Parris Fine mapping of Linkage Group 7 (LG7) Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB) Resistance in Hazelnut - Rion Mooneyham Estimation of Breeding Values to Improve Kernel Weight in Almond (Prunus dulcis) - Shashi Goonetilleke Alternative RNA Splicing Associated with Pecan Dichogamy - Xinwang Wang Alaska Can Grow More Than Giant Vegetables: The Potential of Rhubarb for Specialty Crop Producers - Carol Miles Utilization of Germplasm to Improve Illinois Horseradish - Alan Walters
Biostimulants Promoted Onion Plant Growth and Helped Mitigate Drought Stress During the Seedling Stage - Qianwen Zhang Effluent of the Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste as a Biofertilizer for Red Cabbage - Roland Ebel Optimizing the Application of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation in Organic High Tunnel Vegetable Production Systems - Francesco Di Gioia Cover Crops Potential for Regulating Soil Moisture and Temperature in Drive-row of an Irrigated Organic Vineyard - Mehdi Sharifi Apple Rootstocks Affect Soil Rhizosphere Microbial Communities and Root Exudate Composition - Julie Cardon No-till planting organic dry bean into rolled-crimped cover crops - Matthew Ryan
Evaluating Knowledge Gained from Extension Education Provided in a Citizen-Science Gardening Project - Celina Gomez Using Citizen Science to Evaluate Cultivar Preferences of Compact Tomato Plants - Michael Fidler Extension Master Gardeners and Pollinator Research: The Challenges and Benefits - Pam Bennett Utilizing Facebook and Instagram to Distribute a Residential Horticultural Needs Assessment - Claude Judy Jean Exploring the Ethical Viewpoints of Proplifiting Among Consumers - Leandria Garrett Consumer Perceptions of Climate-Smart Products - Abigail Lauterbach Setting Priorities for Managing Extension Work and Home Life - Esther McGinnis
Foliar Nutrient Concentrations of Strawberry Mother and Daughter Plants Grown in Controlled Environments - Jennifer Boldt Increasing Nutrient Solution Electrical Conductivity Increases Vegetative Growth of Strawberry - Erin Yafuso Impact of Artificial Chilling on Yields of Indoor-Propagated Strawberry Plants in California, Florida, and North Carolina - Ibraheem Olamide Olasupo The Nitrate to Ammonium Ratio Impacts Strawberry Runnering and Daughter Plant Number - Erin Yafuso Effect of Monosilicic Acid on Growth and Physiology of Lettuce - Seunghyun Choi Light Intensity and Zinc Biofortification Effect on Yield and Nutritional Quality of Pea and Radish Microgreens - Pradip Poudel Evaluation of Liquid Organic Fertilizers for Containerized Production of Leafy Greens in a Controlled Environment - Uttara Samarakoon
Field-Based Remediation Strategies for Groundwater Nitrogen Contamination Can Healthy Soil Make Healthy People? Investigating The Impact Of Soil Biota On Micronutrient Uptake In Vegetable Crops Optimizing nitrogen fertilizer concentrations in vegetable transplant production Growing Resilient Broccolini: Harnessing Clover Living Mulch for Weed Suppression and Yield Enhancement Foliage Removal on Processing Sweet Corn Reduces Yield Most Strongly Near Tasseling Optimizing Planting Density of Sweet Corn in Georgia Boosting Sweet Corn Yields: The Power of Biochar and Fertilizers Unveiled
Can Multi-species Cover Crops and Beneficial Microbes be Utilized for Soil Borne Pathogen Management in Watermelon? - Sukhman Kaur Evaluation of Celery Breeding Lines and Commercial Cultivars for Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. apii Race 2 and Race 4 - Christopher Greer Directed Energy System: A Non-chemical Approach for the Management of Nematodes, Pathogens, and Weeds in Nurseries - Tatiana Benedetti Sweetpotato-associated Virome in Mississippi - Sead Sabanadzovic Evaluation of Insecticide Application Plan to Manage Thrips for Sweet Onions in Texas - Subas Malla Are selective insecticides compatible with Bemisia tabaci biocontrol efforts in controlled environments? - Arash Kheirodin Plants Under Regulation; A North Carolina Perspective - Jarred Driscoll
Multiple Foliar Applications of Ethephon for Growth Control of Lantana Camara - Lark Wuetcher Ethephon Substrate Drenches Control Growth of Containerized Annual Bedding Plants and Herbaceous Perennials - William Rich Microbial Communities in the Vertical Profile of a Container Substrate - Silvia Valles Ramirez Moisture Content Effects Microbial Activity in Substrates Derived from Five Different Hammermilled Wood Species Over the Course of Greenhouse Petunia Production - Amanda Mizell Stratification significantly reduces the phytotoxic effects of fresh hardwood - Andre Truter The Use of Machine Learning to Develop Refined Foliar Tissue Analysis Standards and Diagnostic Tools for for Petunia - Patrick Veazie Increasing the Nighttime Lighting Duration Can Hasten Flowering of Long-day Plants -Qingwu Meng Extended Storage of Cut Flowers Using Sub-zero Temperature - John Dole
Two Years, Three Genotypes, and Two Locations: Fruit Quality of Native and Cultivated Aroniaberry Grown in Georgia - Leynar Leyton Prohexadione Calcium is an Effective, Dose Dependent Growth Retardant of ‘Osage’ Blackberry - Hannah Lepsch Impacts of the ‘Fan’ Training Method on Blackberry Yield and Fruit Quality on the Rotating Cross-Arm Trellis - Lizzy Herrera Evaluation of a Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) Cultivar Trial for Yield and Fruit Quality in Lubbock, Texas - Srijana Panta Active vs. Passive Row Cover Management: Impacts on Abiotic Growing Conditions, Yield, and Pests on Overwintering Strawberry - Wenjing Guan Performance of Containerized Strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) in a Greenhouse Environment - Caroline Blanchard Influence of Soil Disinfestation and Beneficial Bacterial Treatments on Anthracnose Fruit Rot Disease and Strawberry Yield - Jayesh Samtani Effect of Temperature and Light during Cold Storage of Strawberry Liners - Lian Duron
The Kentucky Small Fruits Initiative: An Extension-Industry Partnership - Cindy Finneseth Case Study: Assessing Workforce Training Needs And UMKC Student Interest To Develop Controlled Environment Agriculture Education In Kansas City - Juan Cabrera Garcia Assisting Florida Sod Producers with Protecting Water Quality by Quantifying Nutrient Inputs and Exports - Bonnie Wells Will Consumers Purchase a Landscape Scouting Program? - Andrew Jeffers Native Plant Extension Programming for Commercial Horticulture Professionals - William Errickson
Therapeutic Horticulture and Chronic Lower Back Pain: A Pilot Study at the University of Florida - Elizabeth Diehl Integrating Developmentally Disabled Individuals Into the Oklahoma Green Industry Workforce - Mike Schnelle The Effect of a Plant Distribution and Care Program on First-Year University Student Retention, Levels of Depression, Stress, Anxiety, and Loneliness - Srinivas Reddy Adama Evaluating the Needs and Barriers of Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Southwest Puerto Rico: A Qualitative Approach - Angela Linares Ramirez Soilborne Disease, Plant-parasitic Nematode, Insect Pest, and Weed Challenges Faced by High Tunnel Growers and Preferred Strategies to Overcome Those Challenges: Preliminary Results from a Kentucky Farmer Survey - Margarita Velandia Gauging 8th Graders’ Knowledge of Organic Agriculture Production and Labeling Practices - Christine Coker
Director of Therapeutic Horticulture, University of Florida
The mission of the University of Florida’s Therapeutic Horticulture Program at Wilmot Botanical Gardens is to improve lives through engaging with plants and nature. The program is situated at the nexus of the gardens’ commitment to patient care, education, and research, drawing... Read More →
Friday September 27, 2024 11:59am - 1:15pm HST
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Evaluation of Vegetable Soybean Breeding Lines for Yield and Related Traits - GuoLiang Jiang Could Broccoli's Ancestral Lineage Hold the Key to Increased Fatty Acid Content? - Alaina Kleine Characterization of A Novel Locus for Fruit Flavor Aroma in Tomato - Qian Feng Identification and Validation of Novel Resistance Loci to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici Race 3 in Tomatoes - Samuel Ipinyomi Enhancing Fusarium Wilt Race 2-Resistance and Brix Content in Watermelon through Genomic Selection - Anju Biswas Introgressing QTL from a Wild Relative to Improve Gummy Stem Blight Resistance in Watermelon - Cecilia McGregor Genome-wide association study reveals potential loci for powdery mildew resistance in the USDA core collection of Cucurbita pepo - Prerna Sabharwal BreedwithBIMS (Breeding Information Management System) for Crop Breeders - Ksenija Gasic
Greenhouse supplemental lighting of lettuce and tomatoes to a target light intensity and daily light integral using dimmable LEDs - Neil Mattson Hybrid Model for Forecasting Lettuce Yield in Indoor Vertical Farming - MD SHAMIM AHAMED Development of a pH Management Protocol for Strawberry Mother Plants Grown in Deep Water Culture - Jennifer Boldt Effect of Nutrient Correction Intervals on Nutrient Imbalance, Plant Growth, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Melon (Cucumis melo L.) in a Closed Hydroponic System - Minju Shin Adjusting dissolved oxygen in nutrient solution for optimized kale and arugula growth in hydroponics - Kuan Qin Developing Cardinal Temperatures for Leafy Green Growth and Development Parameters from Constant and Positive Day-Night Temperatures - Sean Tarr Light Intensity Regulates the Interactive Effects between Far-red light and Temperature on Lettuce Growth, Morphology, Photosynthesis, and Secondary Metabolite - Sangjun Jeong
Safeguarding Herbaceous Ornamental Plant Diversity: The Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center - Yu Ma SNP-Enabled Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Gladiolus (Gladiolus ×hybridus) Cultivars - Marie Abbey Development of Genetic Fingerprinting of Azalea Cultivars Using SSR Markers - Seth Wannemuehler A Chromosome-Scale Haplotype-Resolved Reference Genome of Lantana camara and Insights into Unreduced Female Gamete Production - Brooks Parrish Identification of Flowering Dogwood QTLs for Bract Color using a Pseudo-F2 Population - Trinity Hamm Evaluation of Hibiscus cannabinus as an Alternative Fiber Crop for Florida: Identification of Valuable Traits and Germplasm for Cultivar Improvement - James Webb
Sustainable Small Plot Farming and Entrepreneurship Training Program - Alexis Howard Edible Weeds for Sustainable Food Systems: Pilot studies with emphasis on purslane - Roland Ebel Louisiana Harvest of the Month – Promoting Local Food and Food Literacy - Carl Motsenbocker Enhancing Food Security and Sovereignty: A Case Study of the University of Connecticut Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program - Shuresh Ghimire Response of Leafy Edibles Grown on an Extensive Greenroof Compared to Conventional Field Production - Kaitlyn M Lamaster Diverse Internships as an Opportunity to Engage Underrepresented Students Into Local Food Systems - Angel Cruz Food Policy and Food Security - Sophia Darrow Sustainable Small Plot Farming and Entrepreneurship Training Program -Alexis Howard
Introduction of modern tools to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Fruit Breeding Program - Carmen A. Johns A Century of Pear Breeding at the USDA - Christopher Gottschalk Differential Thermal Analysis of Cold Hardiness in Interspecific Hybrid Grapevine for Breeding Applications - Douglas Vines Ovary and Fruit Shape Variation Associated with Novel ClSUN25-26-27a Alleles in Watermelon - Samuel Josiah Linking Cultivar Evaluations – Phenology, Metabolomics, Consumer Preferences, and Postharvest Handling of ‘Glenn’ Mango - Jonathan H Crane Evaluation of Small Fruit Germplasm at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center - Patrick Jones Developing a Genomic Framework for Selection of Fruit Attributes in Cold Climate Interspecific Grapes (Vitis Spp.) - Venkateswara Rao Kadium U.S. Peach Production and Breeding Overview - Chunxian Chen
Tropical Fruit Crop Specialist, University of Florida, TREC
Commercial tropical fruit production systems and information. I work with avocado, mango, lychee, longan, mamey sapote, papaya, passionfruit, dragonfruit, guava, annona, and others.
Friday September 27, 2024 1:59pm - 4:00pm HST
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Six -year Performance of Semi-dwarfing Peach Rootstocks From the NC-140 'Cresthaven' Trial in Western Colorado - Jeff Pieper Nutritional Dynamics and Horticultural Performance of Peach Orchard in the United States in Response to Different Soil Amendment Programs. - Ayodeji Idowu Influence of Low-, Medium-, and High-Chill Requirement Rootstocks on the Metabolomic Profile of Low-Chill Peaches - Jonathan Clavijo Herrera Effects of plum tree architecture on canopy light environments and fruit quality - Lisa Tang Does the Utah Model Still Work in Utah? Evaluation of Existing Phenological Models for Tart Cherry in a Changing Climate - Josette Moon A Mobile Cartographer System to Measure Tree Growth Within Tart Cherry Orchards - Brent Black Enhancing Uniformity in Tart Cherry Orchards Through Precision Management and Variable Rate Fertilization - Kurt Wedegaertner Tree temperature prediction to improve chill accumulation estimation in cherry under climate change - Giulia Marino
Seedling Zoysiagrass Response to Fluazifop-butyl and Trifloxysulfuron-methyl With the Safener Metcamifen - Hannah Wright-Smith Influence of Demethylation Inhibiting Fungicides on Creeping Bentgrass Putting Greens - Wendell Hutchens Endophytic N Fixing Bacteria Isolated From Warm-season Turfgrasses and Common Lawn Weeds - Andrea F Arevalo Alvarenga Mowing Mediated Root Radial Transport of Lead in Cynodon dactylon (L.) Persoon - Xinyi Cai Cool-season Turfgrass Biomass and Ecosystem CO2 Flux as Affected by Fertilization and Irrigation - Ruying Wang The 2023 Arkansas Diamond Plant Evaluation Trials - Anthony Bowden
Breeding for Photoperiod Insensitive and Indeterminate Flowering Habit in Pigeonpea - Diego Viteri Breeding for Improved Tomato Flavor - Denise Tieman Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Key SNPs Associated with Mineral Element Accumulation in Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) - haizheng xiong Comparative Analyses of Tissue-Specific Transcriptome Responses to Salt Stress in Lettuce Roots and Leaves - Modan Das QTL Mapping Of Horticulturally Important Plant Architectural Traits In Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) - Thi Nguyen Screening Sweetpotato Germplasm for Resistance to Meloidogyne incognita - Phillip Wadl Variation for Non-Acclimated and Acclimated Heat Tolerance Among Potato Germplasm: Indication of Separate Genetic Control - Jiwan Palta
Friday September 27, 2024 2:29pm - 4:00pm HST
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Light Intensity Regulates the Interactive Effects between Far-red light and Temperature on Lettuce Growth, Morphology, Photosynthesis, and Secondary Metabolite - Sangjun Jeong Lighting Around the Clock: Greenhouse Production with 24h Lighting - Jason Lanoue Explore a Cost-friendly Way for Plant Nitrogen Stress Identification - Ping Yu Optimization of Irrigation Based on Substrate Type for Tomato Production in the Dutch Bucket Hydroponic System - Milon Chowdhury The Secondary Metabolite Production and Growth Responses of Cannabis to Thigmomorphogenesis in a Controlled Environment - Jose Franco Da Cunha Leme Filho Simulated Climate-change-related Environmental Stressors Can Alter the Yield and Metabolomics of Tomato - Marlo Vandiver
