Applied Biology and Food Nutrition and Health
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Lecturer
- Viticulture and wine-making in BC
- wines of BC and the world
- arbuscular mycorrhizae interactions with plants (potato, strawberry, clover)
- plant nutrition (especially phosphorus)
- symbiosis, plant physiology
- P-induced resistance to mycorrhizae
- advanced microscopy of mycorrhizal-plant interactions
- influence of nutrition and plant growth regulators on cranberry and strawberry physiology - flower induction/formation
- flower induction and initiation of cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
- efficacy of reduced-risk pesticides for apple
- flower-thinning of apple with plant extracts
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