Go West: WDCS to hold annual meeting in Hawaiʻi
This summer, strengthen your skills by presenting your research, participating in the student competition, networking, and learning about …
Research
$3.4M award to study fungal-bacterial interactions on climate change
September 21, 2022 UH News CTAHR soil scientists Jonathan Deenik, Tai Maaz, and Nhu Nguyen To study the effect of fungal-bacterial interactions on nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen in soil, a three-year $3.4 million grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to an interdisciplinary team headed by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa […]
$4M to improve maize breeding, food production
September 17, 2021 UH News Maize nursery in Waimānalo. Improved, practical crop breeding tools are essential to meet the increasing global demands for sustainable and secure food production, made more urgent by the unpredictable stresses driven by a changing climate. To help meet this need, the National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research […]
Nitrogen study could help farmers and protect water, ecosystems
August 3, 2021 UH News Tai Maaz Nitrogen is the unsung hero of food production—an essential nutrient for plant growth and health. Nitrogen is found in the chlorophyll needed for photosynthesis, the amino acids that form proteins, the adenosine triphosphate compounds that release energy, and the DNA that codes all plant life. Yet, because nitrogen […]
High-tech detection determines pineapple harvest needs
March 2, 2021 UH News In a new study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Small Business Innovation Research program, researchers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, IntelinAir, Inc. and Columbia University are investigating whether remote sensing and computer vision can help pineapple growers carry out […]
Holy guacamole! UH researchers to help national avocado production
Avocado production worldwide continues to boom, with 6.4 metric tons produced in 2018 alone, according to recent statistics. …