As more new plants are released targeting disease and/or abiotic stress management, the hort industry will be tasked to explain the meaning of resistance and tolerance to consumers.
Excess nitrogen levels result in undesirable shoot growth and increased susceptibility to insect pests, affecting the growth and quality of many crops.
AmericanHort’s Horticultural Research Institute has launched a web-based series that will feature key findings designed to help greenhouse businesses grow.
Scholarships are a great way to foster and develop the next generation of industry leaders, and there have been a couple recent developments in this area.
AmericanHort offers a leading voice in promoting the funding of research projects through the Specialty Crops Research Initiative.
Ralstonia solancearum, a federal quarantine pest, was recently confirmed in a single geranium variety in a greenhouse in Michigan. It is the first confirmed case in the U.S. since 2004.
The Horticultural Research Institute has announced a wide range of greenhouse-based research projects that will receive funding in 2020.
Dale & Liz Deppe established the Spring Meadow-Proven Winners Endowment Fund with the Horticultural Research Institute in 1999.
Learn more about a workshop hosted by the Oregon Association of Nurseries and Horticultural Research Institute.
The horticulture industry generates one third of both all specialty crop revenue, yet it receives only 12% of federal funds earmarked for specialty crops.
In anticipation of possible registration changes from the EPA, AmericanHort is looking to better understand of growers’ use of neonics.
The Horticultural Research Institute has announced a wide range of research projects, from innovations in crop protection to emerging pest issues, that will be funded in 2019.
Partners in the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge want to find out, and are asking industry members to complete a short survey.