Dr. Diane Miller

Trees are my passion. Trees that bear fruit such as apples and chestnuts have rich cultural + environmental benefits.

• Human health components of flesh color of diverse apples (white, green, yellow, orange, pink, red)
• Diverse apple genetic material for hard cider utilization
• Using apple transgenic for early flowering trait to speed apple breeding
• Clonal propagation of chestnut to enable establishment of horticultural elite production plantings

OSU is the only professional job I've had - I was hired straight out of graduate school. I choose to pursue academia because I enjoy the science & discovery allowed by it - I get to work with top growers & play a part in leading the industry towards the future.

None currently. I went on a Fulbright (2004-2005) to the center of origin of the apple (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) and the (legal) evaluation of apple germplasm collected there has been the focus of my career + it's enabled selection of apple genetic diversity for the Midwest.

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) because it’s a very innovative group and focused on small farms.

Coming back together as a community and interacting face-to-face with colleagues and industry members!

My whole family is super involved with tree crops actually. My husband, is a chestnut grower - whose been developing the industry in Southwestern Ohio. We have 3 kids and together are a very science oriented family. Never really had a division between work & personal time. I do what interests me all the time - I work with trees for my job, my passion, the environment & the community.