Horticulture Research
Horticulture research in the department of Plants,Soils,and
Biometeorology encompasses a wide range of topics in the
commodity areas of fruits, landscapes, turf, and vegetables.
These topics span the range from dormancy in fruit production,
water use of asparagus, development of intermountain native
plants as vegetable crops, gene flow in turf, water use
of turf and native plants, and implementing landscape water
conservation policy. 
Much of this research is conducted
at the Greenville research farm just two miles north of
campus that has state of the art irrigation facilities.In
addition, horticultural research is conducted in several
well equipped labs on campus. All research on aspects of
water conservation in ornamental landscapes is partially
supported by the Center for Water Efficient Landscaping.
- Ornamental Research
- Turf Research
- Vegetables Research
- CWEL
