Plant Nutrients

Agroecology; cropping system diversity and resilience; ecological intensification; soil health; root ecophysiology

Management of commercial flower and nursery crops; nutrition of ornamental plants; container soil-plant interactions; propagation, production, and field establishment of plants

Physiology and biochemistry of plant nutrition and soil fertility, nutrient efficiency and management in horticultural crop production.

Cellular and molecular bases of adaptation of plants to biotic and abiotic stress; The molecular bases of fruit quality

Nutrient acquisition and carbon assimilation in relation to environmental stress; mechanisms of nitrogen uptake and assimilation