Articles

Jan 19, 2026

New Publication Alert!

Yue Shan, Jung Hoon Han and Daniel Tregeagle have just finished their publication, ‘The California Strawberry Nursery Industry: Overview, Challenges, and the Prospects of Controlled Environment Agriculture‘. You can find it here on our website or here in the International Journal of Fruit Science. Congratulations Yue, Jung and Daniel, and huge thank you to Yue…

Nov 3, 2025

Lian Durón’s Research into Strawberry Transplants using Controlled Environments

In today’s strawberry industry, propagators sell a few different types of plant materials to commercial growers for them to plant: bare root, plug, and tray plants. Lian’s Involvement in SCRI: PIP-CAP Lian Durón was part of the SCRI: PIP-CAP, a cutting-edge project funded by USDA-NIFA with one clear mission: boost the quality and quantity of…

Jun 11, 2025

Highlights: 2025 Strawberry Field Day

Mar 12, 2025

PIP-CAP Research Published in HortScience

Our very own Objective 1 researchers, Dr. Erin Yafuso and Dr. Jennifer Boldt, have just been published in an academic journal, HortScience. Titled ‘Adjusting the Percentage of Nitrate in Nutrient Solution to Optimize Strawberry Stolon and Daughter Plant Production’, this article details what they’ve found while researching optimal fertilizer levels for indoor growing. Abstract: Year-round…

Oct 8, 2024

7 for 7 in our SCRI: PIP-CAP Internship Program

You can watch Lian discuss her internship experience here on YouTube, and you can view our entire Internship Experience playlist here on YouTube! In the fall of 2024, Lian Durón Alvarado traveled from West Lafayette, Indiana to Watsonville, California, for her SCRI: PIP-CAP Academia-Industry Student Exchange opportunity. She spent a week learning and working at…

Sep 3, 2024

In-field Performance of Plug Transplants

Article and images by Shinsuke Agehara Plant Physiologist Dr. Shinsuke Agehara and his research team at University of Florida completed the first-year field evaluation of strawberry plug transplants in Florida. This experiment was conducted at Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Balm, FL. In the field experiment, we used two short-day cultivars that are…

Aug 28, 2024

Impact of Lighting on Strawberry Biology

Article and images by Edward DurnerDepartment of Plant BiologyRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Most seasonal flowering strawberries (Junebearers) produce a single crop in the spring (except in Florida and California, USA) and are considered quantitative short-day (SD) plants at temperatures (<20C/<68F ), qualitative shortday plants at temperatures (>20C/>68F) and most fail to form flowers at…

Jun 19, 2024

The California Strawberry Industry: Current Trends and Future Prospects

May 30, 2024

Highlights: 2024 Strawberry Field Day

Scroll to see highlight photos from NC State University's Strawberry field day.

May 30, 2024

Fresh Faces in CEA Spaces: Moein Moosavi-Nezhad

In CEAg World's 2024 Fresh Faces in CEA Spaces series, they chatted with Moein Moosavi-Nezhad, a graduate student who is finishing his PhD in strawberry propagation at North Carolina State University.