Research Topics
Below you will find a list of information on the research conducted by faculty members and students at the horticultural facilities at UNH. Within this site you will find many publications in PDF format. To view them you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free of charge from the Adobe website.
Undergraduate Students
David Dobos: Propagation media and rooting response.
Steve Conaway: Comparison of pH and media response from applications of flowable lime.
Nancy Giacovelli: Quantifying the pH and EC response of a Peat-based, Calcium chloride-treated Medium to Application of Acidic and Basic Chemicals.
Elizabeth Mello: Rooting hormones and rooting response of Perennials.
Erik Wochholz: Recycling food and agriculture waste from UNH and surrounding businesses that is generally sent to the dump.
Graduate Students
Amy Bestic: determining micro nutrient concentrations within soil-less media.
Amy Douglas: determining sexual compatibility between Nolana species.
Andrea Quintana: studies of flower color in Anagallis monelli.
Post Doctorate Research Scientist
Jinsheng Huang: modeling of pH dynamics in greenhouse container media.
Faculty
Alan Eaton: Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse and Apple IPM programs, Fruit Pest Update phone message, predator mite introduction to apple orchards.
Becky Grube: Sustainable Production of Vegetable and Small Fruit Crops
Brent Loy: Cucurbit breeding and genetics; melons, pumpkins, winter squash, ornamental gourds; hull-less seeded pumpkins; pollinations, F1 hybrids, hybrid vigor; orange tomatoes; plastic mulches and rowcovers; pumpkin and melon cultivars developed at UNH.
Cathy Neal: Irrigation and Nutrient Management, evaluating fertilizers, application methods and timing; and maximizing irrigation efficiency for optimal crop production without environmental degradation. Production systems technologiesevaluating new technologies and production methods with the potential to improve growth or quality and/or reduce cost of production. Plant materials evaluations, evaluating woody ornamentals, perennials and annuals for production and landscape use in New Hampshire.
John Roberts: Winter injury of turfgrasses, Utilization of dwarf and low maintenance turfgrasses, Introduced new management costs and minimized groundwater contamination by utilizing new low maintenance turfgrass varieties.
Cheryl Smith: plant diagnostic laboratory; bio-rational plant disease controls; inoculation of mint with Verticullium wilt.
