Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - Research Overview
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.
Dr. Lori Hoagland 
Dr. Yiwei Huang 
Dr. Kranthi Varala Research Areas
- Sustainable practices for horticultural crop production
- Alternative crops and cultivars adapted to low-input and organic production systems
- Improvement of postharvest fruit quality
- Controlled environment agriculture
- Herbicide physiology, weed ecology, and mechanisms of herbicide resistance
- Plant interactions with soil microbial communities
- Plant growth and development
- Plant responses to the environment and abiotic stress
- Adapting crops to climate change
- Epigenetic regulation
- Genome editing
- Systems biology
- Plant metabolic biochemistry
- Plant natural product discovery
- Landscape systems and design; land use and planning; landscape ecology
- Plant Nutrition
- Drought Tolerance and Water Management
- Horticultural marketing
- Horticultural education
Dr. Krishna Nemali 
Dr. Celina Gomez 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
Bressan, Ray bressan@purdue.edu
Stress Physiology
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
Speciality Crop Production Systems
Huang, Yiwei huan1655@purdue.edu
Landscape Performance and Landscape Ecology
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
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
Digital Landscape Representation
Bigelow, Cale A. cbigelow@purdue.edu
Turfgrass Science; Soil Properties and Turfgrass Nutrition
Bilenky, Moriah mbilenky@purdue.edu
Sustainable Horticulture
Bressan, Ray bressan@purdue.edu
Stress Physiology
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
Speciality Crop Production Systems
Huang, Yiwei huan1655@purdue.edu
Landscape Performance and Landscape Ecology
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
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
Aaron Patton, Department Head
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