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📣 Big news for #HORT201! Starting this Fall, we’re offering a new online asynchronous section alongside our regular in-person class 🌱💻 Thanks to Garrett, Madison, and the team at "The Studio" Texas A&M Libraries for helping bring this to life! 🎥🎬

Our new lab Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences is finally coming together! 🥼🧪🧫 Lab coats, glassware, and equipment are slowly arriving, and we’re getting everything set up 🔬📦✨ Grateful to Texas A&M AgriLife Research for the renovations and to our team of grad and undergrad students. More updates soon! 🔍📢

Donate to the ASHS 125 for 125 Campaign! These funds go directly to supporting student travel grants and educational programs. Help strengthen the future of horticultural science! Join the 125 Club today! ashs.org/donations/dona… #givingday #HorticulturalScience

Honored to be selected for the 2025–2026 #LEADAgriLife cohort! Excited to grow 🌱, learn 📚, and lead 🤝 alongside an incredible group of colleagues. Grateful for the opportunity to support the mission of Texas A&M AgriLife and give back to the broader community 🍇🤠🫒

#ASHS2025 Onsite Collaboration Sessions Find project partners and meet others with like interests to discuss future collaborations. Register for ASHS 2025 ashs.org/event/2025NewO… Check out the online Collaboration Center at ashs.org/page/collabora…

Busy summer Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences! Our 3 undergrads, postdoc, and lab manager are hard at work on lettuce, spinach, and dragonfruit 🥬🌵Soon, MSc & PhD student will dive into grapes & fruit trees 🍇🌳Salt, pollutants, heat/cold stress. Lots of fun and more to come! Gig 'em, Aggies! Whoop!👍

Hot off the press! 🫒 Research by Dr. Clavijo, former PhD student (co-chaired with Dr. Sarkhosh), based on his MSc work at UF IFAS WFREC under Dr. Tethford - bringing solid science to olive cultivation in the Southeastern U.S.! UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences --> doi.org/10.21273/HORTS…

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant cell.com/molecular-plan…

🌿 Full house today at the LI-COR Photosynthesis Workshop at Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences. Huge thanks to the LI-COR team for traveling to Aggieland to connect with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research community and showcase their equipments in action! 🌞🍃

Thanks to ECHO for visiting Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences and giving us a hands-on demo of their microscope technology! We appreciate you taking the time to showcase your products and engage with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research community. 🔬👏

Day 1 of the ASHS Annual Conference: excited to be here representing Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences and connecting with friends and colleagues 🌱 #ASHS2025 #HortScience

Kicking off the ASHS Annual Conference in New Orleans with the opening and awards ceremony! 🌿 Great to reconnect with friends and colleagues — let the good times roll! 🎉 Laissez les bons temps rouler! #ASHS2025 #HortScience ⚜️🎉🎭🎺🎷🎶📿🍹

Day 2 ASHS conference: Busy with poster presentations! 🍊🍋🍇🍑 Great to give an update on Dr. Lukas Hallman’s work from our UF days, and to share future research directions we’re developing at Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences . 📸 Some lab memories included too!

ASHS Day 3 — busy busy! Ray Gonzalez rocked the undergrad poster competition; Dr. Khalid Hussain presented his research;🍻 Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences Dept happy hour with friends & colleagues. Ended the day judging grad student posters! #ASHS2025 #TAMUHort #LetTheGoodTimesRoll 🌿🎉

ASHS Day 4! 🌿Andrew McFarland presented his poster; Lorenzo Rossi shared his research on olives and Florida 🫒 and lots of great networking and amazing food 🍤🍷 Now ready for trivia night and the awards celebration! 🏆🎉 #ASHS2025 #HortLife #LetTheGoodTimesRoll

Super fun trivia night and awards ceremony ASHS! Proud moment for Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences as we brought home several awards 🏆 including a gold medal for best undergraduate poster presentation by our very own Ray Gonzalez! 🌟 Gig ‘em Aggies! 👍🏼🌱 #HortProud #StudentSuccess #GigEm

Last day at ASHS 🌿 Wrapped it up with Dr. Hussain’s presentation on nanoplastics and citrus, business meeting, and some final moments soaking in New Orleans 🎷✨ Still celebrating Ray Gonzalez and his gold medal win! 🥇🎉 #ASHS2025 #WorkHardPlayHard

Happy to join the External Advisory Board for a Dept. of Agriculture grant on sustainable ag & environmental pollutants in the Rio Grande Valley. Also, great U.S. National Science Foundation-USDA workshop 🌱💧 Had a great time visiting Kingsville and exploring the historic Texas A&M-Kingsville 🐗💙💛 Texas A&M Kingsville campus! 🍊

Only six Senior Military Colleges exist in the United States — and Texas A&M is proud to be one of them.🇺🇸 With the largest uniformed student body outside the service academies, our TAMU Corps of Cadets represents a legacy of leadership, discipline and service that stretches back