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Anheuser-Busch professorship for rice genetics
Jewel Minnis Trust provides endowment
Sealed Air donates equipment and scholarship money
Seed dealers and Talberts endow scholarship
Wilda McMurry endows fellowship fund
Student research grants awarded
Division hosts national spinach conference
Haggard named ARS Scientist of the Year
Grad students will study in Belgium
ASID students host national officer
Interior Design builds shelters
Horticulture honors alumni and friends
Discovery student journal published
David Pryor keynotes POSC program
Endowed chairs and professors honored
Alums help launch Pioneer Biofuels
Patent issued for herbicide-resistant rhizobia
Faculty and staff photo
to go in centennial time capsule
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November-December 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 6
Division of Agriculture hosts National Spinach Conference
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| SPINACH TOUR — Dr. Teddy Morelock shows spinach variety test plots to participants in the National Spinach Conference during a tour of the Vegetable Substation at Kibler Nov. 17. From left are Hironubo Hayashi of the Takii Seed Co. in Hokkaido, Japan; Jose Solorzano of American Takii Seed Co., Yuma, Ariz.; Morelock; and Jan Dijkstra of Nunhems Zaden BV, Haelen, the Netherlands. |
The Division of Agriculture hosted the annual National Spinach Conference Nov. 16-17 at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Fayetteville and the Vegetable Substation at Kibler.
The conference included presentations by scientists from Arkansas, Texas A&M, the USDA and private industry. The Division conducts the nation’s only university-based comprehensive spinach research program.
The research program includes work by plant breeder Dr. Teddy Morelock and plant pathologist Dr. Jim Correll to develop improved, disease-resistant spinach varieties. A project led by Dr. Luke Howard seeks to develop an improved process for extracting flavonoids from spinach for use as a possible dietary supplement.