Research
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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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The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences held their annual undergraduate research symposium today. The Horticultural Physiology Lab was well represented. Mary Lewis presented her work on inducing flowering in marigolds, using far-red LEDs. She had the joy of presenting in front of our department head, who was one of the judges. Jesse…
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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…
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For the past two years we have been working hard on realizing an idea we had almost 10 years ago: Can we control photosynthesis of plants by measuring how quickly they photosynthesize and then adjust the light level in order to reach a specific rate. Turns out that the answer is: Yes, we can! Using…