Graduate Students in the Plant Biology Graduate Program Receive Awards at the Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of America
Eight Graduate Students in the Plant Biology Graduate Program Receive Awards at the Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) Held in Houston, Texas from October 5-9, 2008
Jo Anne Crouch, who graduated from the Plant Biology Graduate Program in May 2008, received the Gerald O. Mott Scholarship Award from the CSSA at their awards ceremony on Monday, October 6th. The Mott Scholarship is provided each year to a meritorious student in the Crop Science Society who has demonstrated outstanding potential for leadership.
Seven other graduate students received awards at the CSSA C-5 Division business meeting on Wednesday, October 8th for their research presentations at this year’s annual meeting. Over 100 students competed in the C-5 Division’s oral paper and poster competition. In the Soils and Water Session, John C. Inguagiato took 1st place for his oral presentation entitled, Topdressing Incorporation and Sand Shape Effects on Anthracnose Severity of Annual Bluegrass. Patrick McCullough was awarded 1st place and Robert Shortell received 2nd place honors from the Industry Committee for their talks on Bispyribac-sodium Metabolism in Annual Bluegrass, Creeping Bentgrass, and Perennial Ryegrass, and The Influence of Nitrogen Fertility on the Tolerance of Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) to Bispyribac-sodium Herbicide, respectively. Emily Merewitz was awarded 2nd place for her poster entitled, Physiological Responses of Drought Stressed Creeping Bentgrass Transgenic for an Ipt Gene Controlling Cytokinin Synthesis from the Turfgrass Breeders Committee, and Jon Bokmeyer received 2nd place and Matt Koch took 3rd place honors for their oral presentations entitled, Combining Ability of Brown Patch Resistance in Tall Fescue, and Greenhouse Screening of Perennial Ryegrass Cultivars for Salinity Tolerance, respectively. Finally, in the Physiology and Ecology Session,Yan Xu was awarded 2nd place for her talk on the Effects of Plant Growth Regulators and Biostimulants on Summer Bentgrass Decline.
Left to right: Rob Shortell, Jo Anne Crouch, Yan Xu, Jon Bokmeyer, John Inguagiato, Emily Merewitz, Patrick McCullough, and Matt Koch.
