Fruits, Vegetables & Specialty Crops

Project Highlights

A tray of large red apples

Improving quality and reducing losses in specialty fruit crops through storage …

Petri dish with bright green and blue sections

Deterring pest aphids on crops using probiotic bacteria

Harvested apples

Managing nutrients for reducing bitter pit in ‘Honeycrisp’

Woman looking at tomato plants in a greenhouse

Research and development of germplasm and breeding methods for tomato Improveme…

Yellow and white corn cob in a sweet corn field

Improving sweet corn varieties for the Northeast

Rows of broccoli in a field.

Optimizing tillage and cover crops for organic vegetable farms

Beans growing in a high tunnel

Vegetable variety improvement for high tunnel production

Leaves and fruit of a hop plant

Improving management of hop powdery mildew

A child eating sweet corn

Improving the nutritional quality of sweet corn

Onions on the field, pulled for harvest

Unwrapping the mysteries of fungal diseases of onion

Apple with a big brown spot and a tiny center of mold

New apple disease spoils even pasteurized foods