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T.C. Jayalath, PhD student and technician in the lab, won the 2021 Controlled Environment graduate student competition at the 2021 ASHS meeting in Denver. His presentation focused on the concept of ‘carry-over DLI’, an idea developed in our lab that takes advantage of sunny days, by lowering the target daily light integral the day after…
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The Kenneth Post Award is awarded by the ASHS Floriculture professional interest group for the best floriculture-related paper published in an ASHS journal. Former MS student Claudia Elkins won the award for her paper titled ‘Longer photoperiods with the same daily light integral improve growth of Rudbeckia seedlings in a greenhouse’, published in HortScience. If…
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The D.W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Research was established in 1983 to honor University of Georgia alumnus D.W. Brooks who devoted his professional life to improving the quality of society through continued service and support of agriculture, agribusiness, and the environment. Mr. Brooks was a graduate and faculty member of the College of Agricultural and…
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Mary Lewis is an undergraduate student, who has been working in the lab during fall and spring. her research is aimed at inducing flowering in short-day plants, using fa-red LEDs. Her studies are sponsored by the UGA Center fr Undergraduate Research Opportunities, The Georgia Center of Innovation, the American Floral Endowment, and PhytoSynthetix. She presented preliminary…