Via CALS Instagram: A sunflower is astonishing for more than just its outward beauty. Associate professor Taryn Bauerle and her students are tracking how drought-stricken sunflower roots send electrical signals to the leaves to ...
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NPR’s The Salt : Kale is getting a makeover, and the very essence of kaliness may hang in the balance. To develop a new variety of kale tailored to American palates, horticulture professor Philip ...
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Thomas Björkman and Michael Mazourek share insights into their research in this video feature at NBC News’ science and technology site: Meet the Scientists Breeding Vegetables for Our Changing Environment. “Artificial intelligence, new smartphones and ...
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Thinking outside the crop: challenging market class concepts in vegetables with Michael Mazourek, Associate Professor in the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, it is available online. See also Mazourek’s seminar New ...
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From Nina Bassuk: The Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science offers a wonderful opportunity once a year, the Frederick Dreer Award, that allows one or more students to spend 4 months to ...
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Cornell Chronicle : A Cornell program is reimagining kale – its color, shape and even flavor – in a bid to breed the naturally biodiverse vegetable for consumer satisfaction. Traits of importance for plant ...
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From Hortus Forum, Cornell’s undergraduate plant club hortusforum@gmail.com: It’s that time of year again! Hortus Forum is going to be having its annual poinsettia sale. We’ve spent the semester growing a diverse variety of ...
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Teaching horticulture inside a medium-high security men’s prison in Illinois with Robert Scott, Cornell Prison Education Program, it is available online. More seminar videos: Horticulture | School of Integrative ...
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Cornell Chronicle : Farmers looking to reduce reliance on pesticides, herbicides and other pest management tools may want to heed the advice of Cornell agricultural scientists: Let nature be nature – to a degree. ...
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Reposted from the SIPS blog Discovery that Connects: For scientists, an understanding of root morphology is of tremendous importance for agricultural and biofuel crops alike. The measurement of the belowground traits of plants has ...
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