Awards
Canadian Society for Horticultural Science Awards - 2007
CSHS
Best oral Presentation and Travel Award at the Plant Canada 2007 in
Saskatoon
NSAC graduate student received the award for
best graduate student oral presentation (under CSHS) as well as a
travel award from Dr. S. Khanizadeh, the president of CSHS, at the
Plant Canada 2007 in Saskatoon.
NSAC Participated in Plant Canada 2007
Ajit P.K. Joshi, an NSAC graduate
student, won the 1st prize for her oral presentation on
"Enzymatic Browning in Selected Apple Genotypes" at the graduate
student presentation competition of the annual conference of
Canadian Society of Horticultural Sciences (CSHS) of Plant Canada
2007 in Saskatoon. This year, six societies have held their annual
meetings jointly during June 11-14th under Plant Canada, which is
the federation of Canadian Plant Science societies. Ajit's
co-supervisors are Dr. Vasantha Rupasinghe and Dr. Nancy Pitts of
the Department of Environmental Sciences.
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Best Paper
Awards |
Elisabeth J. Botha,
Bernie J. Zebarth, and Brigitte Leblon for their
paper "Non-destructive
estimation of potato leaf chlorophyll
and protein contents
from hyperspectral measurements using
the PROSPECT
radiative transfer model." Published in
CJPS 86:
279-291.
Mary Ruth McDonald & Sean
M. Westerveld received the award for best paper award (under CSHS)
from Dr. S. Khanizadeh, the president of CSHS, at the Plant Canada
2007 in Saskatoon.
Sean, M. Westerveld, Alan
W. McKeown, and Mary Ruth McDonald for their paper
�Distribution of nitrogen uptake, fibrous
roots and nitrogen in the soil profile for fresh-market and
processing carrot cultivars.� Published
in CJPS 86: 1227-1237.
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Graduate
Student Poster Award |
Title: "Essential Oils
as Sprout Inhibitors and Their Effects on Potato Seed Tuber
Performance" - Xin Zong (winner and first Author), K. Tanino
(second author and advisor) and C. Nesser and M. Bondara (other
authors).
