Department of Plant, Food and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Lord Abbey
- Health-based sustainable food systems and food security
- Vegetable and fruit production
- Domestication of native and wild plants in diversified systems
- Soil nutrient management systems
- Plant response to biotic and abiotic stress factors
- Value addition to compost and compost utilization
- Greenhouse production and technology
- Relationship between pre-harvest and post-harvest behaviour of fresh produce
Heather Braiden
- Cultural landscapes
- Green infrastructure
- Commodification of landscapes
- Post-industrial and post-mining landscapes
Dr. Claude Caldwell
- New crop development
- Cropping systems
- Cereal and oilseed crop physiology management
- Water relations and environmental stress effects on crops
- Sustainable agriculture
- Agroecology
G. Christopher Cutler
- Pollinator risk assessment
- Insect toxicology
- Conservation biological control
- Wild pollinator and natural enemy ecology
- Hormesis
Brandon Heung
- Soil science and soil surveying
- Digital soil mapping and assessments
- Geospatial information systems
- Spatial analysis and modelling
- Data-mining and machine-learning
Dr. Rajasekaran Lada
- Environmental sciences
- Environmental stresses & crop adaptation
- Horticulture science and global agro-ecosystems
- Plant science
- Plant, tree, seed and ecophysiology
- Environmental stresses physiology and metabolism – ecochemicals
- Plant growth and development
- Hormonal physiology and signals
- Photo synthesis and water relations
- Plant physiology
- Innovative products and technologies
- Vertical farming technologies
- Plant communication
- Ecological agriculture systems
- Post-harvest physiology
- Plant hormones and growth regulators
- Ecophysiology
Dr. Derek Lynch
- Agronomy
- Agroecology
- Farming systems
- Organic agriculture
- Nutrient management
- Soil quality and soil health
- Soil organic matter dynamics
- Plant-soil microsymbiont interactions
Tracey MacKenzie
- Arboriculture
- Urban tree management
Dr. Sean Myles
- Genomics
- Population genetics
- Genetic mapping
- Apples
- Grapes
- Cannabis
Dr. H.P. Vasantha Rupasinghe
- Functional foods and nutraceuticals
- Plant-based antioxidants and their health benefits
- Flavonoids (polyphenols) and their disease prevention potential and analysis using mass spectrometry
- Medicinal biochemistry: human cell based assays and experimental animal models
- Post-harvest biology
- Novel and improved value-added processing technologies of cool climate fruits and medicinal plants
Dr. Gefu Wang-Pruski
- Potato production
- Food quality and traceability
- Environment protection in disease management and control
- Genomes of plants and their pathogens
- Gene expression profiling
- Association mapping
- Molecular breeding and selection using markers
- Regulation of plant systems against biotic and abiotic conditions
Dr. Scott White
- Weed management in horticultural crops
- Weed management in perennial crops
- Perennial weed management
- Plant production dynamic and demography
- Predictive plant modeling
- Plant reproductive biology
Dr. Svetlana Yurgel
- Plant growth and development