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Position: Teaching and Research - Floriculture Nutrition
(6 tenths teaching, 4 tenths research)
Responsibilities:
Teaching and research responsibilities are in the areas of greenhouse management,
floriculture production, and plant nutrition. Research emphasis is concentrated on
increasing nutrient retention of soilless root media; developing cultural production
practices for new floricultural crops; and studying the interrelationships between
nutritional status of floricultural crops and the incidence and development of
insect problems.
K-State Floriculture Web Site
Courses Taught:
HORT
190 Pre-Internship in Horticulture
HORT 570
Greenhouse Operations Management
HORT 625
Floricultural Crops Production and Handling
HORT 775
Plant Nutrition and Nutrient Management
Currently Funded Teaching
Projects:
High Tunnels for the Central Great Plains: Profitable,
Season-extending Horticultural Production Systems. USDA-IFAFS.
Closing the Loop on the Horticultural Internship Experience. KSU
Office of Assessment and Program Review.
Currently Funded Research Projects:
Bioeconomic Assessment of Biologically-based Pest Management on Ivy
Geranium, National Research Initiative (USDA-NRICGP) Biolgically-based
Pest Management 51.7. 48-0771751.
Use of Pre-charged Zeolites to provide Aluminum for Blue Sepal
Coloration during Hydrangea Production. The Fred C. Gloeckner
Foundation.
Relationship between Tissue Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentrations of
Impatiens and Thrips Infestation and Damage on Impatiens.
F.I.R.S.T. and The Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation.
Graduate Students:
Graduates:
Marci Spaw Valerie Jonas
Katherine Stolp Geraldine Opena
Yan Chen
Kim Williams' Curriculum Vita - 2002
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