CURRENT STUDENTS
Masters
Degree
Doctoral Degree
Postharvest physiology: Ripening physiology, storage optimization for small fruits & tree fruits.
Behe, Bridget
Consumer and market research of plants and related products and services.
Biernbaum, John
Cameron, Art
Postharvest physiology and packaging: Cross commodity. Herbaceous
perennials: dormancy, propagation.
Cregg, Bert
Growth and physiology of woody ornamentals.
Fernandez, Tom
Integrated crop management for nurseries; reducing agricultural chemical
contaminants in nursery runoff through bioremediation;
improving nursery production systems; landscape plant evaluation
focusing
on environmental stress physiology.
Flore, James
Pomology: Stress physiology, carbon partitioning.
Grumet, Rebecca
Vegetables: Molecular genetics, genetics & breeding, disease resistance.
Hancock, James
Pomology: Genetics, physiology, culture of small fruits.
Hanson, Eric
Pomology. Mineral nutrition and culture of small fruits.
Howell, Gordon
Pomology: Grape physiology, viticulture, cold hardiness; enology.
Iezzoni, Amy
Pomology. Breeding and genetics of stone fruits.
Jiang, Ning
Computational and molecular biology-based approaches to understand
function and evolution of transposable elements
Lang, Greg
Pomology:growth and development, environmental physiology, genetic
improvement.
Lang, Suzanne
Plant physiology, plant stress assessment and management.
Loescher, Wayne
Stress physiology, carbon
partitioning, membrane transport, breeding and genetics.
Lownds, Norm
Landscape Horticulture - stress physiology.
Nair, Muralee
Bioactive Natural Products Center, natural products chemistry for
agricultural and pharmaceutical application.
Ngouajio, Mathieu
Integrated crop management for
vegetables; cropping systems; plasticulture; Weed biology and ecology;
allelopathy.
Perry, Ron
Pomology: physiology, rootstock evaluation, high density orchard
systems.
Rowe, Brad
Research emphasis is green roof technology including plant evaluations,
stormwater retention, and energy conservation.
Runkle, Erik
Flowering physiology of herbaceous crops, including effects of
photoperiod, light quantity, and light quality; introduction of new
crops for commercial greenhouse production, including potted orchids and
herbaceous perennials; chemical and environmental strategies to control
plant architecture.
Saylor, Jesse
Landscape Horticulture:nursery production, postharvest quality.
Schutzki, Robert
Landscape Horticulture and Woody Ornamentals: Physiology and culture.
Sink, Ken
Director, Plant Transformation Center, genetic engineering, blueberry,
celery, sour and sweet cherry.
Snapp, Sieg
Vegetables: Integrated crop management.
van Nocker, Steven
Genetics and molecular biology of plant development: flowering, fruit
ripening and abscission.
Warner, Ryan
Greenhouse crops production. Molecular biology of heat stress in plants.
Widders, Irv
Ion transport, environmental physiology, growth and development.
Zabadal, Tom
Viticulture.
Zandstra, Bernard
Vegetables; production and management, weed control.
Telephone
517-355-5191 x 1324
FAX
517-353-0890
Postal address
Department of Horticulture
Plant and Soil Sciences Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1325
Electronic mail
General Information:
hrtgrad@msu.edu
