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The American Society for Horticultural Science announced that Dr. Marc van Iersel was named the 2016 graduate educator of the year. He will receive the award at the 2016 ASHS conference in Atlanta. Here is the ASHS announcement: Dr. Marc van Iersel started as an assistant professor at Griffin Campus of the University of Georgia…
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Shuyang Zhen, PhD student in the horticultural physiology lab, won the graduate student competition at the 8th International Symposium on Light in Horticulture. Shuyang presented her research showing that far-red light can play an important role in optimizing light use efficiency of plants grown under LED light. Her work challenges the widespread perception that far-red…
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The 8th international symposium on lighting (LightSym 2016) was held from may 22-26 in East Lansing, MI. The horticultural physiological lab was well represented at the symposium. Shuyang Zhen presented her work on the importance of far-red light on the efficiency of light use in photosynthesis. Her work has shown that far-red light can increase…
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The American Society for Horticulture Science highlighted the lab’s research in a press release: ASHS Press release on biofeedback system. The press release discusses the lab’s research on the development of a biofeedback system that can control how plant use light. The system uses chlorophyll fluorescence measurements to determine how efficiently the plants use the…
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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…