A5024119631- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Climate change and permafrost
- Light effects on plants
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and animal studies
Texas A&M University
2022-2025
South Dakota State University
2020
Brigham Young University
2017
Texas tomato production is vulnerable to extreme heat in the spring-summer cropping period, which exacerbated by lack of superior genetic materials that can perform well such environments. There a dire need for selecting varieties adapt warm environments and exhibit high yield stability under stress conditions. This research aimed at identifying heat-tolerant heat-stress conditions controlled open-field was carried out three stages. For first experiment, 43 were screened based on responses...
Humic substances (HS) and light-emitting diode (LED) light applications have shown beneficial effects on plant growth, nutrition, yield in various vegetable crops. However, their carryover fruit quality, when applied to the growing media before transplanting, not been widely explored tomatoes. This study evaluated tomato transplant growth response application of solid HS (1% v/v, control) varying LED qualities [10 blue (B):90 red (R), 50B:50R, 100B, fluorescent] chamber conditions (25/19 °C,...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the physiological and biochemical heat responses grafted tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedlings their changes during post-stress recovery period. Heat-tolerant ‘Celebrity’ heat-sensitive ‘Arkansas Traveler’ tomatoes were onto a commercial ‘Maxifort’ rootstock, transplants grown in growth chambers for 14 days treatment (38/30 °C, day/night) followed by 7 (25/18 °C). Results showed significant differences between ‘Maxifort’-grafted ungrafted...
Drought-tolerant tomato wild relatives Solanum pennellii and S. peruvianum show heat-tolerant responses, but their use as rootstocks to enhance thermotolerance has not been examined. This study investigated the effects of heat stress on plants grafted onto commercial 'Maxifort' in high tunnel, open-field growth chamber experiments. Heat-tolerant 'Celebrity' heat-sensitive 'Arkansas Traveler' cultivars were used scions, non-grafted (high open-field) or self-grafted (growth chamber) controls....
Spinach is a crop of economic importance in the Wintergarden region Texas, where increasing soil salinity, irrigation water restrictions, and heat stress challenge its production. Improving abiotic tolerance resource use efficiency are important goals for sustainable agricultural Although effect humic substances (HS) on spinach has been evaluated under single stress, such as heat, drought, or their impact combined stresses unknown. We hypothesized that solid would be effective alleviating...
Heat stress is a major environmental constraint limiting tomato production. Tomato wild relatives Solanum pennellii and S. peruvianum are known for their drought tolerance but heat responses have been less investigated, especially when used as rootstocks grafting. This study aimed to evaluate the physiological biochemical of seedlings grafted onto commercial ‘Maxifort’ relative rootstocks. ‘Celebrity’ ‘Arkansas Traveler’ scion cultivars, previously characterized heat-tolerant heat-sensitive,...
The increasing frequency and duration of high-temperature extremes have adversely impacted tomato production globally. An improved understanding the physio-biochemical traits under such climatic changes will enable selection, development, adoption resilient varieties. Thus, this study investigated a suite fifteen plant that could be involved in mechanisms thermotolerance to facilitate selection heat-tolerant Ten varieties selected from previously published were exposed three temperature...
Humic substances (HS) have been widely used and investigated in several horticultural crops.Most HS are liquid form with fast early releasing effects, while studies on products solid forms their effects plant growth components across the complete cycle less reported.sources derived from different raw materials (lignite, leonardite, sub-bituminous coal) tested as substrate amendments cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv.'Micro-Tom') growth.Results showed that improved growth, compared to...