Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center

2008 Innovator Award Winner

Ohio State University's Sudhir Sastry, developer of a revolutionary one-step commercial method for removing the skins of fruits and vegetables, has received the 2008 Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) Directors Innovator of the Year Award. Link

Wheat Performance Trial

5/13	Plant and bacterial amino acid transporters and their role in nematode-parasitism
"	Invasion and Range Expansion of Aedes albopictus in North America: Molecules, Morphology, and Phenology.
5/15	SENR Seminar Series
5/17	Sustainability Now!
5/20	Climate change and insect pestilence? A nexus of basic and applied science.
5/21	Tomato fruit shape: underlying mechanisms controlling morphological variation

Funded by NASA, OARDC scientists developed a robotic tomato harvester which is able to locate and pick ripe tomatoes. It is meant for use in long-term space missions.