Title: Current Research in Soilless Culture in Controlled Environment Agriculture
Speaker：Prof. Heiner Lieth
Time：09:00-10:00，June 23 (Thursday), 2016
Venue：Room 207, College of Horticulture, South Campus

Introduction:

Heiner Lieth, department Chair for the Environmental Horticulture Department at UCDavis. He has been professor at the University of California in Davis, California since 1984, focusing primarily on the plant science of production of greenhouse and nursery crops.  Prior to coming to UCDavis he obtained his PhD in Biomathematics from North Carolina State University. This involved research on the air pollution effects on snap bean plants where he built mathematical models for various parts of the plant production system, focusing specifically on models to describe how plant growth is diminished through external stresses. Subsequent to this he conducted postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University as part of a team to build crop simulation models for cotton in dry-land field production. The target of this work was to develop decision support tools for farmers

 
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