Research 👨‍🔬🔬🧫🧪 

The Cannabis Biology and Cultivation Systems lab focuses on areas of controlled environment agriculture, plant stress, secondary metabolites, nutraceutical/pharmaceutical biology, and growing practices. The research team aims to determine how to leverage environmental controls (light intensity, duration, quality, temperature, and CO2), phenolics, plant nutrition, biostimulants, and hormones to improve plant yield and quality. More specifically, we are developing techniques to optimize plant yields and quality based on key crop steering traits that increase sustainability and efficiency via plant physiological, biochemical, and agricultural approaches.