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The project will allow for the installation of an introductory panel in almost all garden areas within the botanical garden and to develop interpretive books for one garden.

Department seminar speaker warns that “high in the sky” projects intended to reduce food miles and rejuvenate communities may prove to be “pie in the sky” concepts with detrimental impacts on the environment.

Horticulture assistant professor Kenong Xu Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has a new grant to better to understand a key gene in acid production and deliver reliable tools to predict the acid-producing potential of tiny apple seedlings.

Ron Gardner of Cornell University’s Pesticide Management Education Programis recognized for his 'desire to make a difference' by the New York State IPM Program.

Chris Watkins, professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, has been elected chairperson of the International Society for Horticultural Sciences‘ Commission on Quality and Postharvest Horticulture

Hans Walter-Peterson, extension associate with the Finger Lakes Grape Program, joined Schumer while he visited the region, and pointed out that the damage thus far has been highly selective.

"We’re anticipating considerable damage in our Cabernet Franc, Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay and Lemberger,” says Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor, Department of Horticulture.

The combination of natural enemies, such as ladybeetles, with Bt crops, delays a pest’s ability to evolve resistance to the crops' insecticidal proteins, according to new research.

Botanist Christopher Dunn will become the new Elizabeth Newman Wilds Director of Cornell Plantations April 1.

The emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Vegetable Crops (a precursor to the Department of Horticulture) “was among the first generation of weed scientists and a giant in vegetable crops at Cornell after World War II."