Teaching

Undergraduate Level Modules:

Plant Physiology: B260

Plant Physiology and Stress Management: PS 45

Graduate Level Modules:

Environmental Regulation of Carbon Assimilation and Metabolism
in Horticultural Plants
(offered in the autumn semester)

Special Topics in Plant Nutrition (offered in the winter semester)

 

Research Interests

  • Environmental regulation of carbon assimilation and metabolism (i.e., source-sink relationships)
  • Whole plant growth dynamics
  • Impact of environmental stresses on phytochemistry, growth and development
  • Plant growth regulation and the use of exogenous plant growth regulators
  • Soil fertility and plant nutrition dynamics and the subsequent impact on symbiotic relationships, plant growth, development, yield and fruit structure and composition

    Research Programs

    Wild Blueberry Research Program

     

 Publications

Journal Publications

Upcoming Papers

Selected Non-Refereed Contributions

 

Graduate Supervision

(Please note that all projects are focussed on wild blueberries).

2002: Ms. Angela Murray, M.Sc. student. Project area: Drought stress management in wild blueberries.

2001: Ms. Drucie Janes, M.Sc. student. Project area: Nitrogen and carbohydrate dynamics within the floral bud of the wild blueberry.

2000: Mr. Peter Burgess, M.Sc. student. Project area: Use of growth-suppressants to control introduced and native grass species in blueberry production.

1999: Ms. B. Jordan, M.Sc. student. Project area: Vegetation management strategies. (Note: successfully completed M.Sc. program in April 2001)

1999: Ms. L. Hainstock, M.Sc. student. Project area: Seasonal leaf gas exchange and carbon dynamics. (Note: successfully completed M.Sc. program in April 2002)

1999: Mr. Tommy Gallant, M.Sc. student. Project area: Factors regulating pollination and fertilization.

1998: Ms. Vimy Glass, M.Sc. Student. Project Area: Water dynamics of lowbush blueberries. (Note: successfully completed M.Sc. program in September 2000)

1997: Mr. Garth Perrin, M.Sc. Student. Project area: Assimilation and allocation of foliar-applied boron (Note: successfully completed the M.Sc. program in July 1999).

 

Undergraduate Supervision

2002: Mr. Mike Devanney (co-supervised with Prof. John Tait, NSAC). Use of parallel and field documentation systems in wild blueberry production.

2002: Ms. Corrine Chisholm. Competition between the wild blueberry and Canada bluegrass for the physical environment parameters light and soil moisture.

1999: Ms. A. Walsh, NSAC. Crop and weed density effects on leaf gas exchange and biomass production.

1999: Ms. A. Dryden, NSAC. Influence of acid rain on leaf pigmentation and gas exchange, leaf fluorescence, growth and development, and yield of lowbush blueberry.

1999: Ms. R. Lavangie. Morphological and phytochemical differences influence pollinator behaviour, fruit set, and yield in wild blueberries.

1998: Ms. Mary Bryant, NSAC. Use of gibberellic acid to improve yield and fruit firmness of blueberry.

1998: Jennifer Stewart, NSAC. Phytohormones (i.e., GA’s and anti-GA’s) and foliar-applied nutrients influence flower initiation and yield of lowbush blueberry.

1997-1998: Patricia Meadows, NSAC. Use of aquaculture waste water as a nutritional amendment.

1997-1998: Gerald MacDonald (co-supervised with Dr. J. Kemp, UPEI). Foliar-applied boron influences pollen viability, pollen tube growth, fruit set, yield, and fruit composition of lowbush blueberry.

1997: William Malay, NSAC. Vegetation management of lowbush blueberries.

1996: Nicole Bailey, NSAC. Impact of soil amendments and companion crops on the lowbush blueberry.

1996: Jennifer Coopar, NSAC. Boron assimilation and partitioning in lowbush blueberry.

1996: Jelmar Wiersma, NSAC. Spatial differences in the lowbush blueberry mycorrhizal association.


Awards

2000: Canada Foundation for Innovation Research Excellence Award for 2 research initiatives examining the environmental regulation of plant growth and development and wild blueberry physiology, protection and production

1997: American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Award for the most outstanding fruit publication in ASHS (consisting of 3 journals) during 1996.

1993: Ulyssis Hedrick Award for the best student paper presented to American Pomological Society.

 

Memberships

American Society for Horticultural Science
American Pomological Society
Canadian Society for Horticultural Science
International Society for Horticultural Science
Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists
Nova Scotia Wild Blueberry Institute (Board Member)

 

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