Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - Research Overview

Horticulture applies knowledge from fields of science and biology to improve production and develop sustainable practices for high value, intensively cultivated crops including those used for food, landscapes, ornamentals and medicine. In Landscape Architecture, we analyze, plan, and design the natural and built environment using science, art, and technology.

Combining knowledge from biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, genetics and ecology with aspects of design, function, and beauty, horticulture and landscape architecture includes people with a broad range of interests.

Research Areas

• Adapting crops to climate change
• Alternative crops and cultivars adapted to low-input and organic production systems
• Controlled environment agriculture
• Drought Tolerance and Water Management
• Epigenetic regulation
• Genome editing
• Herbicide physiology, weed ecology, and mechanisms of herbicide resistance
• Horticultural education
• Horticultural marketing
• Improvement of postharvest fruit quality
• Landscape systems and design; land use and planning; landscape ecology
• Plant growth and development
• Plant interactions with soil microbial communities
• Plant metabolic biochemistry
• Plant natural product discovery
• Plant Nutrition
• Plant responses to the environment and abiotic stress
• Plants in Space
• Sustainable practices for horticultural crop production
• Systems biology
• Turfgrass Science

Faculty Research Areas

• Barbarash, David M     dbarbara@purdue.edu
  Digital Landscape Representation
  
  
• Bigelow, Cale A.     cbigelow@purdue.edu
  Turfgrass Science; Soil Properties and Turfgrass Nutrition
  
  
• Bilenky, Moriah      mbilenky@purdue.edu
  Sustainable Horticulture
  
  
• Dudareva, Natalia     dudareva@purdue.edu
  Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  
  
• Gómez, Celina     cgomezva@purdue.edu
  Controlled Environment Agriculture, Hydroponics, Plant Propagation
  
  
• Guan, Wenjing     guan40@purdue.edu
  Vegetable and Melon Crop Production
  
  
• Hallett, Steve     halletts@purdue.edu
  Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• Handa, Avtar     ahanda@purdue.edu
  Post Harvest and Molecular Biology
  
  
• Hirst, Peter     hirst@purdue.edu
  Pomology
  
  
• Hoagland, Lori     lhoaglan@purdue.edu
  Specialty Crop Production Systems
  
  
• Huang, Yiwei     huan1655@purdue.edu
  Landscape Performance and Landscape Ecology
  
  
• Iyer-Pascuzzi, Anjali     asi2@purdue.edu
  Plant-microbe interactions; Plants in Space
  
  
• Langenhoven, Petrus     plangenh@purdue.edu
  Production Horticulture
  
  
• Li, Ying     li2627@purdue.edu
  Functional Genomics; Plant Responses to the Environment
  
  
• Maynard, Elizabeth     emaynard@purdue.edu
  Sustainable Vegetable Production
  
  
• Meyers, Stephen     slmeyers@purdue.edu
  Specialty Crop Weed Science
  
  
• Mickelbart, Mike     mmickelb@purdue.edu
  Horticulture/Plant Physiology
  
  
• Nemali, Krishna     knemali@purdue.edu
  Controlled Environment Agriculture; Hydroponics, Indoor Farming, Floriculture
  
  
• Orvis, Kathryn     orvis@purdue.edu
  Horticulture/Youth Education
  
  
• Patton, Aaron     ajpatton@purdue.edu
  Turfgrass Management Systems, Turf Weed Science
  
  
• Percevault, Erin     eperceva@purdue.edu
  Landscape Architecture
  
  
• Porterfield, D. Marshall     porterf@purdue.edu
  Controlled Environment Agriculture; Plants in Space 
  
  
• Raghothama, K.G.     kgraghoth@purdue.edu
  Molecular Biology of Plant Nutrition
  
  
• Rotar, Sean Michael     srotar@purdue.edu
  American Landscape History, Design Pedagogy
  
  
• Siciliano, Paul C Jr     sicilian@purdue.edu
  History and Theory of Landscape Architecture, Purdue Arboretum
  
  
• Thompson, Aaron     awthomps@purdue.edu
  Human, Ecological, and Spatial Dimensions of Land Use Planning
  
  
• Torres, Ariana     torres2@purdue.edu
  Marketing of Specialty Crops
  
  
• Varala, Kranthi     kvarala@purdue.edu
  Plant Abiotic Stress; Systems Biology
  
  
• Widhalm, Joshua     jwidhalm@purdue.edu
  Plant Natural Product Metabolism