Dr. Craig Schenck, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biochemistry, University of Missouri Thursday February 1st, at 3:30pm, HORT 117 or Via Zoom. “Evolution of plant chemical diversity: gene co-option, enzyme promiscuity, and pathway sequestration” Abstract: To cope with environmental pressures, plants produce an arsenal of structurally diverse chemicals, often called specialized metabolites, which have various industrial and[Read More…]
Petrus Langenhoven and Meredith Cobb are working with the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC) to plan the 2024 Midwest Mint Growers Conference. This year, the conference will be held in South Bend, IN, and we expect to see growers from Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin attend the conference. For more information, visit https://ag.purdue.edu/department/hla/extension/mint.html. Look[Read More…]
Recently, representatives from the Meyers’ Weed Science Lab, Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josue Cerritos, showcased their work at the 64th Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and Southern Weed Science Society (SWSS) Joint meeting in San Antonio, TX. During the event, Jeanine presented a 3-minutes single slide talk titled “Cover crops: a weed management[Read More…]
Two open-access articles involving Mitchell lab participation in the NASA-sponsored ILSRA project directed by former Purdue HLA post doc Gioia Massa, PI, have just become available online: An article entitled “Pick-and-eat space crop production flight testing on the International Space Station” appears in the Journal of Plant interactions, and can be linked to via https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2023.2292220[Read More…]
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