HCS in the news!

Oct. 14, 2013

Check out these articles about HCS faculty research! 

Ohio State researchers clone a gene that regulates fruit size in vegetable, fruit crops
"Esther van der Knaap, a geneticist with the university's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, led an international research team that discovered and cloned a gene that regulates fruit size in tomato. This is only the second domestication gene involved in fruit size ever cloned in any vegetable or fruit crop.

This basic research has important implications for vegetable and fruit growers, as it could allow breeders to manipulate genes to create new vegetable and fruit varieties with desired size and shape characteristics, said van der Knaap, who is based on the Wooster campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), the research arm of the college." 

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OSU Extension offers guidance for reseeding pasture in pipeline rights-of-way

"CALDWELL, Ohio - Farmers who are negotiating easements across their property for shale oil and gas pipelines might want to include a clause about when the company should reseed their pastures because reseeding at the wrong time of year often results in failure, a forage expert with Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences says."

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