Now is the season for initiating important hazelnut selections into tissue culture.

Students in the Irrigation and Drainage class visited my greenhouse today to do a project installing a drip system. Win-win!

Setup for using the gene gun with Dr. Bob Zemetra.

This week, it's wheat immature embryo culture!

Photo of African Violet regeneration from our very first lab experiment this term. It took a long time to get here, but here we are.

The results are in - we have embryos! Photos are mine and those of my grad student TA, Claire Kepner.

Brassica napus flower buds for this week's microspore embryogenesis lab. I hope we get haploid embryos!

It looks like I am torturing carrots at home as I test out different strategies for producing explants for the carrot embryogenesis lab.

I am very excited that I received seeds for the Green Venus non-browning Romaine lettuce. These are the first gene edited lettuce seeds that I have had that I didn't produce myself or obtain from someone I worked with personally.

The first lettuce plants in my brand new greenhouse.

Being in the Hort Department at OSU has some pretty nice side benefits. First there was the corn, squash, green beans, broccoli, and hazelnuts coming out of the breeding programs after they finished the evaluations for this season and then there was this lovely surprise courtesy of the Sagili lab.