lead article

Meet the growing demand for fuel, food, and fiber while conserving air, land, water, and biodiversity

Make a difference! Your degree in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences prepares you for what may be the greatest challenge of this century.

Talent like this doesn’t grow on trees

Talent like this doesn’t grow on trees

In the shadow of windward O‘ahu’s Ko‘olau Mountains, banana plants grow on a UH Student Organic Farm Training plot that occupies about 1.5 acres at the Waimānalo Research Station.

More...

Landscape Horticulture: Cultivating a Humane Environment

Landscape Horticulture: Cultivating a Humane Environment

Physiological measurements can reveal how individuals experience and react to plants.

More...


Sustainable Agriculture: Food for Today and Tomorrow

Sustainable Agriculture: Food for Today and Tomorrow

Former TPSS Ph.D. graduate student Archana Pant evaluates the chemical properties of compost teas in the laboratory.

More...

A is for Agriculture: Plant Science Can Be Childs’ Play

A is for Agriculture: Plant Science Can Be Childs’ Play

A young visitor to UH Mānoa extracts DNA from papaya as part of the Gene-ius Day curriculum for third graders.

More...