Author Archives: horthappenings

For this flyer, we would like to give notice to someone who we were very thankful to have as part of our USDA ARS HCRU community, Dr. Chad E. Finn. One of his associates, Jungmin Lee, wrote this piece to inform us about him and the NABC 2020 Duke Galletta Award. USDA Innovations 2020-15

This flyer is focusing on the importance of nematodes and their DNA by one of our OSU Graduate Students, Catie Wram! USDA Innovations 2020-14

This quick-read flyer about RNAi for western flower thrips control by Man-yeon Choi and Kelly Donahue. This is an extremely interesting read and has me excited for what else is to come! USDA Innovations 2020-13

As many of you might know, Gina Flores has been working remotely for our unit since May 10, 2020. She officially started working for us in-office (& then continued remotely) the second week of June. So we figured it was finally about time that we make a flyer to introduce her! USDA Innovations 2020-12

For this flyer we would like to share with you the agricultural problem of grey garden slugs. Research was performed by Research Entomologist Dr. Man-yeon Choi, his lead lab technician Kelly Donahue, and with the help of their team! USDA Innovations 2020-11

This flyer is about pulsed drip irrigation as a promising method for improving red raspberry production by Jesse Carroll and Dave Bryla! USDA Innovations 2020-10

This flyer is introducing our new post-doc, Michael Hardigan. Michael will work in the berry breeding program. Michael and I put this together to let Michael introduce himself to all of us! USDA Innovations 2020-9

This flyer touches on research conducted by one of our recent graduates about different fungal communities among rhododendrons! I hope you enjoy this fun overview! Zach Foster conducted research on this topic and presented it! USDA Innovations 2020-8

This flyer focuses on using a pressure chamber to monitor water stress in vertical shoots of vines! The study is being performed by Tian Tian and Paul Schreiner. USDA Innovations 2020-7

This flyer is the last in our “mini-series” that focuses on our celestial blackberries! This final flyer is about our ‘twilight’ blackberry! These are new innovations with the USDA and we’re so happy to share our product with you! USDA Innovations 2020-6