Regenerative Agriculture: Effects of Cover Crop and Mycorrhizal Inoculation on Salt Stress Mitigation in Floridian Tomato Cultivars, PI.
Funding Source: Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)
Total budget: $30,000. 2024
Conservation of Sabal miamiensis, PI.
Funding Source: Montgomery Botanic Center
Total budget: $32,000. 2023
Comprehensive Agriculture Research Experiential (CARE) Learning Through Precision Agriculture and Conservation Science (PACS), Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture – HSI
Total budget: $400,000. 2023
Integrated Capacity Building Project To Promote Student Success And Leadership In Sustainable And Precision Agriculture, Co-PI
Funding Source: USDA NIFA NLGCA
Total budget: $150,000. 2023
Plant Tissue Culture in Selected Ornamentals, PI
Funding Source: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Total budget: $50,000. 2023
Education and Training Workshop to Promote Urban Agriculture for Food Security and Community Building, Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA Cochran Fellowship
Total budget: $110,000. 2023
Smart Sustainable Fertilizer Manager, PI
Funding Source: The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps™)
Total budget: $50,000. 2022
Building Research, Education, And Leadership for Agriculture and Related Career (bREAL – ARC), Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture-HSI
Total budget: $1,000,000. 2022
Water Quality Assessment in Florida’s Ag. Sector, PI
Funding Source: WEO Foundation
Total budget: $40,000. 2022
Plant Tissue Culture in Selected Ornamentals and Fruit Trees , PI
Funding Source: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Total budget: $10,000. 2022
Nitrogen Management and Plant Quality Monitoring Using Optical Sensor Technology in Native and Non-Native Specialty Crops, PI
Funding Source: USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
Total budget: $82677. 2021
Conservation of South Florida Mycorrhizal Fungi, PI
Funding Source: Fred Case Grant. 2021
Herb Spiral Garden and Irrigation Project, PI and Compost Pile Project, Co-PI.
Funding Source: FIU Office of Sustainability – PI: Connie Caldwell
Total budget: $5,000. 2019
Cochran Fellowship Program, Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA – Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Fruit and Vegetables) – Moldova.
Total budget: $63,000. 2017
Innovative Curriculum for Agriculture Training and Career for Hispanics, Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA NIFA HSI
Total budget: $2,049,601. 2016-2021
Cochran Fellowship Program, Co-PI.
Funding Source: USDA
Total budget: $85,356.46. 2016
Cultivar Evaluation and Precision Water Assessment in Grapevine with the emphasis on Super-Absorbent Polymers, PI
Funding Source: Oklahoma Viticulture and Enology
Total budget: $24,976. 2015
Effects of super-absorbent polymers on grapevine transplant cultivars, PI
Funding Source: Oklahoma Viticulture and Enology
Total budget: $20,616. 2014
C&S Horticulture Lab is grateful for the stakeholders’ support:
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
- Montgomery Botanic Center
- USDA-ARS Subtropical Horticultural Research Station
- StartUP FIU
- Trimble Agriculture
- Costa Farms
- Pine Island Nursery
- Florida Association of Native Nurseries (FANN)
- Florid Native Plant Society (FNPS)
- The Little Farm
- Weo