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Pratima Subedi won the first place in the College of Agriculture Graduate student oral presentation session at the 47th Annual Tennessee State University-Wide Research Symposium, 2025 held last week. Congratulations Pratima Subedi! TSU College of Agriculture #TSUAg #TennState

We were thrilled to host our friends and colleagues when we cut the ribbon on a trio of renovated lab facilities here on campus. 🔬 🥼 🌱 A host of dignitaries took student and faculty member-led tours of the new facilities before gathering for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. 🎉

We were delighted to welcome our colleagues from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to campus yesterday for a meet and greet to discuss potential collaboration opportunities. Stay tuned for more details on this pending partnership! 🤝 🧑‍🔬 🔬

Excellence, service and scholarship were on the agenda at the 2nd annual TSU MANRRS Awards Gala last week! TSU MANRRS leaders and Gala MCs Emory Minor and Blake Wright took to the stage for the event, guiding the group through the awards, speakers, flowers and fun. 🫶 💪

Pratima Subedi received second place at the college-wide 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition organized by the College of Agriculture on April 9, 2025. Congratulations Pratima!

The College of Ag. bade a fond farewell to one of its longest-serving patrons last week when, 45 years to the day since he started working at the College as a research assistant, AREC Superintendent Eddie Williams retired. Congrats Eddie!

Congratulations to Christina Jennings Christina Jennings and Pratima Subedi Pratima Subedi for receiving travel awards to attend the 2025 American Society for Horticultural Sciences (ASHS) conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 28-August 1, 2025.

TSUAg wishes all the mothers out there a wonderful, safe and family-first Mother's Day!

Members of the Baysal-Gurel lab volunteered at the Middle Tennessee Nursery Association’s (MTNA) field day held at Tri-Green on May 15, 2025. #TSUAgResearch #MTNAFieldDay #BaysalGurellab

Fire blight is the most important disease of apple and pear in Kentucky. Symptoms may now be visible; however, initial infections occurred at bloom. The pathogen survives winter in dead, dying, and diseased wood and in cankers. kentuckypestnews.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/fir…)

Maggie Laudeman, a junior at Tennessee Tech majoring in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, has joined the Baysal-Gurel Lab as a summer intern. Welcome to the team, Maggie. We are excited to work with you!😊

New publication in The American Phytopathological Society! Development of Molecular Markers for the Detection of Csp. D.P. Rogers Associated with VSD in Woody Ornamentals. Fulya Baysal-Gurel apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD…

On June 4, 2025, Baysal-Gurel lab hosted Junior Master Gardener class for 28 elementary school students. The educational program themed “Fungi Among Us,” introduced young learners to fungi through hands-on activities, including demonstrations of plant pathogenic fungi.

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DON'T MISS the COOL OPPORTUNITY! The International Master Gardener Conference is happening ONLINE this fall! The discounted #earlybird registration lasts til June 21 (you can scan QR code or click link in comments) #IMGC2025 #MasterGardener #JMGkids #schoolgarden #growyourself!

The Otis L. Floyd TSU Nursery Research Center is excited to host visitors this Friday for the facility's summer 2025 Field Day & Open House. Research facility Director Karla Addesso and her team will be welcoming visitors to learn, meet & network at TSU's premier research farm.

Today, we honor the resilience, triumph, and legacy of freedom. Juneteenth marks an end, but also a beginning of the enduring pursuit of equity, education, and empowerment in this country, values that define our work at the College of Agriculture. 💙 #Juneteenth #TSUAg

On June 20, 2025, the Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center welcomed visitors for its Summer 2025 Field Day and Open House, where Dr. Fulya Baysal-Gurel presented the latest research updates on Vascular Streak Dieback (VSD).

On June 20, 2025 Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center welcomed visitors for its Summer 2025 Field Day and Open House. Baysal-Gurel lab hosted a hands-on diagnostic session, introducing attendees to cultural, microscopic, and molecular techniques for plant pathogen detection.