Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Seminar

Candidate for the Specialty Crop Production Clinical/Engagement Faculty

Position located at Southwest Purdue Ag Center

Wenjing Guan
Horticultural Specialist, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical
State University

Developing an applied research program in sustainable

vegetable and melon crop production
Wenjing Guan received her Ph.D. degree in Horticulture from the University
of Florida in August, 2014. She is currently working as a Horticultural
specialist for the cooperative extension program at the North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Guans research interest is on
sustainable and organic vegetable and melon production. She conducted
her Ph.D. dissertation research on melon grafting, with specific focuses on
disease management, fruit quality, and grafting methods. Her research
projects at North Carolina A&T State University are focusing on high tunnel
and organic vegetable and strawberry production. In this presentation, she
will introduce her previous research findings and present her versions for
developing an applied research program in specialty crop production at
Purdue University.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

9:30 AM
HORT 222