DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES
We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil management and weed science), horticulture (sustainable landscapes, fruits and vegetables), landscape architecture and environmental soil sciences (biogeochemistry, hydrology and plant-soil interactions). We have a distinguished faculty, known nationally and internationally for their research and outreach, and within UD for their excellence in teaching, advising and mentoring students.
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Biden Day One: Climate Change
January 22, 2021 | Written by Beth Miller and Karen RobertsDonald Sparks, who is Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), was delighted to see climate change as a major priority. -
Enlighten Me: Methane and salt marshes
January 11, 2021 | Written by Sophia Schmidt of Delaware Public MediaDelaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt talks UD researcher Rodrigo Vargas about how science missed this detail, and what it might mean for mitigating climate change. -
Methane and tidal marshes
December 07, 2020 | Written by Beth MillerA pair of University of Delaware researchers were studying “blue carbon” — the carbon stored in coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, salt marshes or sea grasses — when they found something no one expected to see in a salt marsh: large quantities of methane in the soil.
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