Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science hosted the 33rd Annual Turfgrass Symposium on March 14, drawing close to 90 attendees to the hybrid event, including participants via Zoom from France, Finland, United Kingdom, and several U.S. states, like Oregon, Virginia, Texas, Maryland, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Keynote speaker was John Sorochan, Distinguished Professor in the Department […]
Plant Biology
Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool Launches Nationwide to Digitize Crop Nutrient Management
Project partners, which included Rutgers Cooperative Extension, announced the nationwide release of its Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool (FRST), a decision-aid that provides an unbiased, science-based interpretation of soil test phosphorus and potassium values for crop fertilization. The FRST project is a collaboration of more than 100 soil science and agronomic professionals representing nearly 50 universities, […]
Turfgrass Alumnus Richard Hurley GSNB’83: They Call Him ‘Doc Hurley’
New Jersey native and Rutgers turfgrass PhD alumnus Richard Hurley has been a leader in breeding grasses used on golf courses around the world, ranging everywhere from Australia to the Masters, which is hosted each year in Georgia. For decades, the iconic Augusta National Golf Club has used cool-season grasses developed at Rutgers. Richard Hurley […]
Rutgers University Scientists in Micronesia to Advance Food Security Initiatives
Rutgers University scientists James Simon, Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Biology, and Ramu Govindasamy, professor and chair, Department of Agricultural and Food Resource Economics, and Dena Seidel, science communication researcher, paid a courtesy call on Governor Stevenson A. Joseph, Pohnpei State, Micronesia. The Rutgers delegation was joined on the visit by Micronesian officials Hubert Yamada, […]
Science-in-Action Storytelling Highlights Impact of Rutgers Research on Communities at SEBS Event for Alumni and Friends
Have you ever wondered what steps Rutgers science teams take to understand and solve complex environmental challenges? Rutgers alumni and friends were treated to a screening of original short science-in-action stories featuring SEBS scientists on November 28 at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health. This event gave 160 audience members a front-row […]
Rutgers Scientist Timothy Waller Offers Tips on How to Choose the Perfect Christmas Tree
If you are heading to a farm or the local lot after the Thanksgiving weekend to pick out your perfect Christmas tree, Timothy Waller, an evergreen researcher, has some advice for you. Waller, an agricultural agent with Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County, has been working on Christmas tree disease management and variety demonstrations as part […]
Rutgers Innovators Named Edison Patent Award Recipients in Agriculture, Forensic Science Categories
Basil varieties that are resistant to the deadly downy mildew disease. A computational tool that calculates the probability of the number of contributors in a DNA profile. These two innovations share two things in common: both were developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and both received Edison Patent Awards at the Research […]
Christmas Tree Do’s and Don’ts: How to Choose the Best Tree this Season
December is here, and that means Christmas is right around the corner! Holiday tunes are playing in nearly every store, houses covered in colorful lights line neighborhood streets, and there’s a sense of joy in the air. You may have even brought the festivity inside your home with a real Christmas tree, welcoming in the […]
Researchers Show Promising Results in Effort to Reinvent Herbicides to Combat Invasive Plants
Invasive plant species are typically fast growing. Highly competitive with native plants, they are ecosystem disruptors, often displacing native plant as well as animal species. A research team led by James White, professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Rutgers University, and Kurt Kowalski, a wetland ecologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological […]
Ph.D. Student Bill Errickson Places 2nd in Poster Session of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) held its 2023 International Annual Meeting from October 29 to November 1, in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual meeting is an opportunity for leading scientists, researchers, educators, policymakers, students, exhibitors, and government institutions to gather to […]