It all started with the Four O’clock flowers young Egem Özbudak would study as a toddler growing up in Izmir, Turkey. The bursts of velvety purple and periwinkle-colored flowers studded with long red asterisks or yellow buttons in… Read More
Paul LaFreniere envisions high value niche crops and fish in his plans for agricultural entrepreneurship. He says the key to sustainable food production is for growers to understand plant pathology. A Jupiter native and University of Florida undergraduate,… Read More
While she was a graduate student at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Sasha-Kay Clarke and her adviser, Dr. Sherline Brown, were hopeful they would find a research scientist who would accept Clarke as a visiting… Read More
FORT PIERCE, Fla.– Fighting plant disease with jet blast sprays is standard practice for citrus growers. But, to spray a fungus to control a single insect that carries a disease-causing pathogen is uncommon. University of Florida Institute of… Read More
Ricardo Lesmes-Vesga left his native village in the Colombian Andes Mountains region to pursue higher education in protected agriculture and citrus advanced production systems. In only a few years, he will have achieved the highest degree education can… Read More
In response to recent advancements in plant root science, a University of Florida scientist will offer one of the school’s first graduate-level courses on the topic, online, for fall semester, 2018. Lorenzo Rossi, assistant professor of plant root… Read More
An inventive fruit tree researcher has joined the University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center. Lorenzo Rossi is the center’s first-ever root biology professor and will support the university’s statewide Institute of Food and Agricultural Science’s… Read More
A University of Florida research professor has been recognized along with a team of international scientists with a prestigious award for water and energy conservation in irrigation practices. The National Water and Energy Conservation Award was presented by… Read More
