Dinesh Phuyal, a University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center graduate student, has earned two travel grants that will take him to an international research leaders’ meeting. The two awards, one from the American Society of… Read More
Climate change, soil degradation and biotic and abiotic stresses on crop roots present unprecedented challenges to agriculture and the health of agroecosystems. During the last few decades, pioneering plant root biology scientists began to understand the role of… Read More
AIR POTATO BEETLES AT WORK Bernadette Stange leaned backward like a palm tree yielding to wind, balancing herself on the forest floor under a dome of 2-story high pine trees tangled with ropes of vines dressed in polished… Read More
A horticultural research scientist with experience in the development of disease-free citrus rootstock and disease tolerant citrus varieties in Iran’s northern agricultural region will now serve the Indian River District’s growers. Amir Rezazadeh recently began his new position… Read More
David Calvert, a resourceful soil scientist, who was regaled as the Indian River District’s lead citrus production scientist and spearheaded pioneer investigations to evaluate the environmental interface between agriculture and soils, has died, according to a family spokesperson…. 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
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
Two University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences scientists at the Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce, each who have made internationally important contributions to soil science have been recognized with University Term… Read More
