Plant and Soil Sciences
Biology professor Heather Throop demonstrates how to use a portable gas exchange system to measure CO2 (carbon dioxide) uptake in plants. (NMSU photo by
Darren Philips)
Contributing research includes studies of water and nitrogen management in crops; development of New Mexico onion and chile varieties; crop seedling research; crop-plant genetics and pest mitigation; biological diversity of rangeland in the Chihuahuan Desert; techniques for forage production under water limiting conditions; weed research to improve soil and forage; and soil borne disease prevention in agricultural crops and livestock.
Major Projects
- Development and Evaluation of Methods for Microbiological and Chemical Analysis
PI: Robert Silver, (575) 646-7038, rsilver@nmsu.edu - Monitoring and Forecasting Climate Water and Land Use for Food Production in Afghanistan and Iraq
PI: Sam Fernald (575) 646-1041, afernald@nmsu.edu - Transcriptome Sequencing of the New World Miracle Trees (Leucaena, Leguminosae): Application for Plant Breeding and
Evolutionary Biology
PI: Donovan Bailey, (575) 646-7012, dbailey@nmsu.edu - Comprehensive and Effective State Pesticide Regulatory Program
PI: Bonnie Rabe (575) 646-2133, brabe@nmsu.edu - Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Response to Long-Term Ecological Changes in Drylands: An Integrated Program for Carbon Cycle Research and
Enhancing Climate Change Literacy
PI: Heather Throop, (575) 646-5970, throop@nmsu.edu - Population Development and Genetic Mapping of Cotton Fiber Quality
PI: Jinfa Zhang, (575) 646-3438, jinzhang@nmsu.edu - Pecan Rootstock Development
PI: David Thompson (575) 646-3125, dathomps@nmsu.edu - Strengthening Public Corn Breeding to Ensure that Organic Farmers have Access to Elite Cultivars
PI: Richard Pratt, (575) 646-3406, ricpratt@nmsu.edu - Seedling Research
PI: John Mexal, (575) 646-3335, jmexal@nmsu.edu
Researchers
Agronomy
- Champa Gopalan, Professor, Plant and Environmental Science
- Kulbhushan Grover, Assistant Professor, Plant and Environmental Science
- Steven Guldan, Professor, Agricultural Science Center, Alcalde
- Leonard Lauriault, Professor, Agricultural Science Center, Tucumcari
- Mark Marsalis, Extension Agronomy Specialist, Agricultural Science Center at Clovis
- Mick O'Neill, Professor, Agricultural Science Center, Farmington
- Ian Ray, Professor, Plant and Environmental Science
- Daniel Smeal, Professor, Agricultural Science Center, Farmington
- Jinfa Zhang, Associate Professor, Plant and Environmental Science
Biology
- Donovan Bailey, Associate Professor, Biology
- Heather Throop, Associate Professor, Biology
Soil Science
- Sangu Angadi, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science Center, Clovis
- Robert Flynn, Associate Professor, Extension Specialist, Extension Plant Sciences
- John Idowu, Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist, Extension Pant Sciences
- Bill Lindemann, Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- H. Curtis Monger, Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Manoj Shukla, Associate Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- April Ulery, Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Adrian Unc, Assistant Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
Major Units
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
- NMSU Farmington Agricultural Science Center
- The Chile Pepper Institute
- Onion Breeding Program
- Alcalde Sustainable Agriculture Research Center
- The Center for Animal Health, Food Safety and Bio-Security
- Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center
- John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center at Mora