TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒

@TAMUHortPhysLab

Howdy! This is a channel of communication for Dr. Rossi's Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab at Texas A&M | @TAMU | @aglifesciences | @tamuhort | Gig' em Aggies!

College Station, TX

Joined April 2018

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 19

Busy summer @tamuhort! Our 3 undergrads, postdoc, and lab manager are hard at work on lettuce, spinach, and dragonfruit 🥬🌵Soon, MSc & PhD student will dive into grapes & fruit trees 🍇🌳Salt, pollutants, heat/cold stress. Lots of fun and more to come! Gig 'em, Aggies! Whoop!👍

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Busy summer @tamuhort! Our 3 undergrads, postdoc, and lab manager are hard at work on lettuce, spinach, and dragonfruit 🥬🌵Soon, MSc &amp; PhD student will dive into grapes &amp; fruit trees 🍇🌳Salt, pollutants, heat/cold stress. Lots of fun and more to come! Gig 'em, Aggies! Whoop!👍

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 9

📣 Big news for #HORT201! Starting this Fall, we’re offering a new online asynchronous section alongside our regular in-person class 🌱💻 Thanks to Garrett, Madison, and the team at "The Studio" @tamulibraries for helping bring this to life! 🎥🎬

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. 📣 Big news for #HORT201! Starting this Fall, we’re offering a new online asynchronous section alongside our regular in-person class 🌱💻 Thanks to Garrett, Madison, and the team at "The Studio" @tamulibraries for helping bring this to life! 🎥🎬

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 24

Thanks to @Discover_Echo for visiting @tamuhort and giving us a hands-on demo of their microscope technology! We appreciate you taking the time to showcase your products and engage with the @txresearch community. 🔬👏

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Thanks to @Discover_Echo for visiting @tamuhort and giving us a hands-on demo of their microscope technology! We appreciate you taking the time to showcase your products and engage with the @txresearch community. 🔬👏

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 23

🌿 Full house today at the LI-COR Photosynthesis Workshop at @tamuhort. Huge thanks to the @LICOR_ENV team for traveling to Aggieland to connect with the @txresearch community and showcase their equipments in action! 🌞🍃

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. 🌿 Full house today at the LI-COR Photosynthesis Workshop at @tamuhort. Huge thanks to the @LICOR_ENV team for traveling to Aggieland to connect with the @txresearch community and showcase their equipments in action! 🌞🍃

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Marie Barberon@MarieBarberon · Jul 22

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant cell.com/molecular-plan…

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 21

Hot off the press! 🫒 Research by Dr. Clavijo, former PhD student (co-chaired with Dr. Sarkhosh), based on his MSc work at @UFIFASWFREC under Dr. Tethford - bringing solid science to olive cultivation in the Southeastern U.S.! @ufhorticulture --> doi.org/10.21273/HORTS…

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Hot off the press! 🫒 Research by Dr. Clavijo, former PhD student (co-chaired with Dr. Sarkhosh), based on his MSc work at @UFIFASWFREC under Dr. Tethford - bringing solid science to olive cultivation in the Southeastern U.S.! @ufhorticulture

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ASHS@ASHS_Hort · Jul 17

#ASHS2025 Onsite Collaboration Sessions Find project partners and meet others with like interests to discuss future collaborations. Register for ASHS 2025 ashs.org/event/2025NewO… Check out the online Collaboration Center at ashs.org/page/collabora…

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 15

Honored to be selected for the 2025–2026 #LEADAgriLife cohort! Excited to grow 🌱, learn 📚, and lead 🤝 alongside an incredible group of colleagues. Grateful for the opportunity to support the mission of @AgriLife and give back to the broader community 🍇🤠🫒

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Honored to be selected for the 2025–2026 #LEADAgriLife cohort! Excited to grow 🌱, learn 📚, and lead 🤝 alongside an incredible group of colleagues. Grateful for the opportunity to support the mission of @AgriLife and give back to the broader community 🍇🤠🫒

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ASHS@ASHS_Hort · Jul 15

Donate to the ASHS 125 for 125 Campaign! These funds go directly to supporting student travel grants and educational programs. Help strengthen the future of horticultural science! Join the 125 Club today! ashs.org/donations/dona… #givingday #HorticulturalScience

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 9

Our new lab @tamuhort is finally coming together! 🥼🧪🧫 Lab coats, glassware, and equipment are slowly arriving, and we’re getting everything set up 🔬📦✨ Grateful to @txresearch for the renovations and to our team of grad and undergrad students. More updates soon! 🔍📢

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Our new lab @tamuhort is finally coming together! 🥼🧪🧫 Lab coats, glassware, and equipment are slowly arriving, and we’re getting everything set up 🔬📦✨
Grateful to @txresearch for the renovations and to our team of grad and undergrad students. More updates soon! 🔍📢

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Texas A&M System@tamusystem · Jul 5

A statement from Chancellor Glenn Hegar on the ongoing flooding in Central Texas:

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 5

Great I ❤️America show organized by the city of @CollegeStation! #4thofjuly2025

AAggieland Illustrated@aggiemag · Jul 5

After jamming out to Journey tribute band, CS residents enjoyed a spectacular fireworks show over the Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater! #ProudToBeAnAmerican

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Scheff@Scheff_Almighty · Jul 5

The Rellis Campus fireworks show in College Station 🎇 Yes, that is Sarge sawing em off 👍

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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service@txextension · Jul 4

🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 Today, we celebrate freedom, unity and the spirit of our nation. Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable Fourth of July! 🎆

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jul 4

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July! Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing Independence Day. Enjoy the fireworks, BBQ, and the long weekend! 🎆🌭🍉 #FourthofJuly #LongWeekend #independenceday

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. 🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July! Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing Independence Day. Enjoy the fireworks, BBQ, and the long weekend! 🎆🌭🍉 #FourthofJuly #LongWeekend #independenceday

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Texas A&M System@tamusystem · Jul 1

Join us in welcoming @Glenn_Hegar as he starts his role as chancellor of the A&M System! Chancellor Hegar, the former Texas Comptroller, has served Texans for more than 2 decades & will now lead one of the largest systems of higher education in the U.S.: tx.ag/TAMUS070125

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NIFA@USDA_NIFA · May 29

Finger limes appear as a promising choice to growers searching for alternative citrus crops that can thrive in Florida. See how a NIFA-funded @UF_IFAS researcher is working to bring this crop to Florida’s citrus industry. blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/hosdept/2025/0…

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jun 25

Happy to have contributed to this research led by our friends @TAMUCVEN exploring how nanoplastics and cadmium interact in lettuce 🥗🧪 The results raise important questions for food safety and open new research avenues here at @tamuhort. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet card. Plastic contamination in agricultural systems is an emerging concern. While current research suggests low direct toxicity, the consequences from interactions between nanoplastics and copresent...

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TAMU Horticultural Crop Physiology Lab 🍇🍊🍑🫒@TAMUHortPhysLab · Jun 24

Three cheers for RayRay! Rising junior @tamuhort, leading a 6-month dragon fruit🌵 study on how 5 soil substrates affect water retention, root traits & plant physiology. He’s presenting his first findings at @ASHS_Hort conference in New Orleans this August! #AggieResearch

TAMUHortPhysLab's tweet image. Three cheers for RayRay! Rising junior @tamuhort, leading a 6-month dragon fruit🌵 study on how 5 soil substrates affect water retention, root traits &amp; plant physiology. He’s presenting his first findings at @ASHS_Hort conference in New Orleans this August! #AggieResearch

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Natural Resources Conservation Service@USDA_NRCS · Jun 23

It is National Soil Health Day, and we are digging into the undie-cover work of soil microbes! That’s right it is time to Soil Your Undies. We know... we just had to go and make learning about soil weird, but we promise it is fun. Here's how to do it:

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