Virtual Cut Flower Short Course Webinar Recording
Topic: Perennial Cut Flowers for Kentucky. Speaker: Shari Dutton, UK Department of Horticulture. Recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41Z1uM6B84.
Department of Horticulture
What's New
Rich Awarded Research Grant
William Rich, an undergraduate student in the Department of Horticulture, has been awarded a $2,000 student research grant by the International Plant Propagators' Society Eastern Region Foundation
Fruit and Vegetable 2020 Annual Research Report Available
The Fruit and Vegetable 2020 Annual Research Report (PR-779) is now available online at http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/PR/PR779/PR779.pdf.
Fruit and Nut Cultivar Nursery Source Directory
An interactive Fruit and Nut Cultivar Nursery Source Directory is now available on the Center for Crop Diversification website at https://uk-horticulture.github.i
Bolt Receives CAFE Undergraduate Research Award
Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology undergraduate student Bridget Bolt has been awarded a CAFE Undergraduate Student Research Activity Award (RAA).
Grad Students Receive CAFE Research Activity Awards
On November 12, four graduate students from Horticulture, from left, Mohammad Alsabri, Chelsea Maupin, Tajbir Raihan and Jia Tan, were awarded CAFE Graduate Student Research Activity Awards to enhance their research projects.
Adding value to Kentucky Wines: Creation of the Kentucky Wine Technical Group
The University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture's Jeff Wheeler, Kendall Corbin (currently Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering) and Carlos Rodriguez López received USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funding to,
López publishes paper
The Department of Horticulture's Dr. Carlos Rodríguez López has published a paper in the journal Horticulture Research. Kiflu Tesfamicael, research analyst in Lopez's group is the leading author.
Updated Fruit and Nut Cultivar Nursery Sources publication available
The Department of Horticulture's Fruit and Nut Cultivar Nursery Sources (HortFact-3002) publication has been updated for 2020 and reformatted to make it more user-friendly.
DeBolt Named University Research Professor
Dr. Seth DeBolt of the Department of Horticulture has been named a 2020-21 University Research Professor.