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Yu Kyeong Shin is a research associate professor at the Department of Horticulture, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea, where she collaborates with Professor Jun Gu Lee on the physiology of vegetable cultivation. She completed her PhD in 2022, with her dissertation entitled “Evaluation of abiotic stress tolerance in vegetable plug seedlings using non-destructive chlorophyll fluorescence […]9 June 2024 -
To feed an estimated population of 9.7 billion by 2050, food production needs to increase significantly while protecting the environment and minimizing food waste. One promising approach lies in organic alternatives to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Through the farming of insects, organic waste is bioconverted into larval biomass to be used as livestock feed, but […]9 June 2024 -
Emulsions, such as creams, dressings and desserts, are an important part of the food industry and our daily lives. However, the food industry rarely explores non-aqueous systems such as oil-in-oil (O/O) emulsions due to the difficulty of finding suitable emulsifiers with hydrophobic nature and the few edible compounds available. Different from typical oil-in-water (O/W) and […]9 June 2024 -
Food production across the globe is threatened by pervasive drivers of food insecurity such as climate change, scarcity of agricultural resources and human population growth. Vertical farming (VF) technologies offer promising contributions within a sustainable food production framework by alleviating the stress posed by these drivers. However, VF encounters some obstacles, in that these systems […]9 June 2024 -
Elisabet Freyja Henriksson is a PhD student at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, working on environmental sustainability and circularity in vertical farming. Her current research is focused on aquaponics and life cycle assessments (LCA). Aquaponics is generating interest in terms of its potential to produce both vegetables and […]9 June 2024 -
Yi Lv is a Ph.D student at the School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, China, under the supervision of Prof. Yike Gao. Cooperating with her co-workers, Yi Lv has conducted distant hybridization breeding between Xanthorrhoeaceae and Amaryllidaceae. Distant hybridization is expected to result in new progenies with traits from genetically different species. This should […]9 June 2024 -
Sara Benchaa is a PhD student at Laval University in Quebec City under the supervision of Prof. Line Lapointe. Sara is focused on optimizing vernalization and cultivation conditions for the greenhouse production of Anemone coronaria and Ranunculus asiaticus. As climatic conditions in the Quebec region do not support a diverse range of early spring cut […]9 June 2024 -
May 18, 2024, the 7th International Fascination of Plants Day This year’s Fascination of Plants Day, a plant scientists’ initiative, has already been adopted by 64 countries worldwide. All information about this initiative can be accessed via www.plantday18may.org and is supported globally by a network of National Coordinators who voluntarily promote and disseminate the activity within their […]17 May 2024 -
Beware of scams implying association with ISHS The ISHS was made aware of correspondences, being circulated via e-mails, from internet websites, and via regular mail or fax, falsely stating that they are issued by or associated with ISHS, the ISHS Board and/or its officials. Such scams, which may ultimately seek to extract money and/or personal […]10 May 2024 -
5th episode in the ISHS Horticulture Debate series called “Hort Forum” Agroecology for sustainable horticulture: It’s time to address it Speaker: Georgina Catacora-Vargas , Universidad Católica Boliviana, Tiahuanacu (Bolivia) Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hours: 17:00 – 19:00 Central European Time (CET) Participating is free of charge – registration is required (see registration link down the description below) […]4 April 2024