Grad student discovers ʻāina-based kuleana at UH
Kahealani Acosta is featured in the ‘Finding Our Kuleana” campaign and explains discovering purpose during her academic journey.
$4M to improve maize breeding, food production
The NSF-funded project aims to address food security.
Nitrogen study could help farmers and protect water, ecosystems
Researchers seek to improve nitrogen management and better understand the global nitrogen cycle.
In memoriam: Horticulturist James Brewbaker, the ‘King of Corn’
Brewbaker’s driving ambition was to leverage science as a means to alleviate widespread hunger around the globe.
High-tech detection determines pineapple harvest needs
Drones are being used worldwide to monitor crop growth, disease and weeds, and to apply fertilizer and crop protection products.
UH-grown taro feeds hungry communities
On Oʻahu, more than 1,500 pounds of surplus taro corms were donated to a community food drive.
Horticulture expert nationally recognized for contributions to field
Kent Kobayashi is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award by HortTechnology.
Holy guacamole! UH researchers to help national avocado production
Miaoying Tian and Sharon Motomura-Wages will characterize pathogen populations and identify disease-resistant germplasm from Hawaiʻi collections.
‘Giant candy canes’ explored in new book by UH professor
Noa Lincoln examines native and heirloom sugarcane, along with detailed varietal descriptions of cultivars held in collections today.
1st taro genome assembly developed by researchers
UH Mānoa and UH Hilo researchers helped publish a study in the hopes of advancing the fight against an infectious disease that wipes out taro.
