CANR News

Category: Plant and Soil Sciences

January 27, 2021 Written by Karen B. Roberts | Graphic by Jeffrey C. Chase

Cultivating versatility

October 10, 2025 | Written by Molly Schafer | Photos by Michele Walfred

At the University of Delaware Carvel Research and Education Center, Borel Global Fellow Mary Starford Matovolwa studies amaranth’s tolerance to drought and cold in an effort to improve global food security.
Sweeping the Competition

October 09, 2025 | Written by: Nya Wynn | Photos courtesy of: Qingwu Meng

Undergraduates and graduate students alike from Assistant Professor Qingwu Meng’s lab swept the competition at this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Conference, highlighting UD’s plant and soil sciences program. Their research advances sustainable, efficient crop growth through controlled-environment agriculture.
Informing landscape decisions

September 18, 2025 | Written by Katie Peikes | Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

Aleena Sabir is a senior studying landscape architecture. Over the summer, she researched campus maintenance related to planting for UD’s grounds crew. She inventoried plants and worked to create a landscape maintenance plan related to species in an area of campus called The Grove. Her work is the start of a landscape maintenance plan that will directly impact campus.