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Strawberry Precise Indoor Propagation

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Jun 11, 2025

Highlights: 2025 Strawberry Field Day

Scroll to check out pictures. Video down below ↓.

Mar 12, 2025

PIP-CAP Research Published in HortScience

Our very own Objective 1 researchers, Dr. Erin Yafuso and Dr. Jennifer Boldt, were just published in 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. Read their abstract below:…

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…

May 30, 2024

Highlights: Strawberry Field Day

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

Apr 12, 2024

Controlled Environment Produced Plantlets from Cornell

Over the past summer, graduate student Ava Forystek and Dr. Courtney Weber at Cornell University's Agritech Campus ran a field trial to evaluate the phenotypic differences between bare root field propagated strawberry plantlets and controlled environment (CE) produced plug plants.

Apr 12, 2024

Phytotron: Photoperiod Research

The farm gate value of the strawberry industry in the United States reached $2.3 billion in 2020.

Apr 12, 2024

Phytotron: CO2 Trial

At North Carolina State University, you will find a building called Phytotron, full of large, controlled environment plant growth chambers.

Apr 9, 2024

SCRI: PIP-CAP Newsletter Issue 2 out now

Take a look at the second issue of our newsletter!