Karin Albornoz
@KarinAlbornoz3
Postharvest Biologist / Assistant Professor @ClemsonUniv @ClemsonCAFLS/ Food loss and waste 🥬🍅🍉🥦🫐🍠🍓🥕
After another watermelon harvest 🍉, this busy summer doesn't slow down 🏃🏼♂️🕥 Great job by our postharvest team. Compliments to the farmer 👨🏼🌾, PhD student @OfficialEbenQ @ClemsonCAFLS




Have you ever wondered where watermelon comes from, or how it was grown, or when it’s ready to pick? 🤔 🍉 This article traces the journey of watermelon from its origins as a weed to commercial cultivation to its final destination - your table. 🍴 hgic.clemson.edu/the-watermelon…
💜We started a new project on blackberry quality where we are investigating early changes associated with drupelet reversion ⚫️⏩🔴 More to come! Thanks to our great team of young researchers and to Big Easy Farms in Wadmalaw Island, SC @ClemsonCAFLS




🥬🔪Happy to share our latest article on the postharvest quality of fresh-cut turnip greens as influenced by growing season doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr…

Full house 🏠 at the professional landscaper’s workshop! Great talks, great audience, great field demonstrations 🤓 We covered several topics, including pest and disease management, pruning woody ornamentals, and the newest landscape care products. @UFTropical @UFPlantPath…
🎉Congratulations to @OfficialEbenQ on the publication of his review article on fresh-cut watermelon! 🍉 @ClemsonCAFLS frontiersin.org/journals/genet…


New Research: Fresh-cut watermelon: postharvest physiology, technology, and opportunities for quality improvement frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Genetics
We're looking for packaging innovations! Emergent restrictions on single-use plastics in key global markets could limit specialty crop export market access for our growers and food processors. Along with @ClemsonUniv and the @IntFreshProduce, we're looking for novel sustainable…
Teamwork! 🤝Such a good week for our group as we started a new study on collard greens 🥬 Really glad to be part of such an awesome team: Technicians Zenaba and Jesse, and grad student @OfficialEbenQ #postharvest #leafygreens #Brassica 🥬




Our 2024 Graduate Research Symposium is in the books! 📚✨ Participants presented their research through posters and 3-minute thesis presentations. Congratulations to this year's award winners, and thank you to all who attended for making this event a success! 👏
🍅🥶Our article is finally out!! Featuring the overexpression of a transcription factor, an unexpected phenotype and a different perspective of tomato 🍅and 🌱responses to cold stress @DianeMBeckles @Jackie26847012 frontiersin.org/journals/plant…
🥶We just got our coolers delivered! They will allow the Postharvest Lab at @ClemsonCAFLS to do fruit and vegetable research that benefits SC growers and reduce postharvest losses and waste🍉🍅🍠🥒🥬 Go Tigers!



What happens when you chill your tomatoes 🍅 🥶 caes.ucdavis.edu/news/researche…
MicroTom's new genome and RNA-seq data reveal gene networks and non-coding RNA interactions, aiding research in plant growth and development. #MicroTom #PlantResearch #Genomics #Database @OxfordJournals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…
#AgronomíaUdeC 📢 ¡No te puedes perder nuestro próximo Seminario! 🌿🍅 🔍 Tema: Pérdidas y Desperdicios de Alimentos de Origen Vegetal♻️ 🍽️ Actividad especial: Cata de Alimentos Elaborados con Subproductos Hortofrutícolas. 😊Actividad abierta a todo público. #SeminarioPDA