We started the ‘Horticulture Innovators’ podcast series to highlight the societal, economic, and research impact of horticulture and spread awareness about the amazing opportunities that exist to further the mission of sustainability, wellness, and food security. Please share these stories and join our humble efforts so that we can engage and prepare the next generation of horticulture professionals to sustain these amazing industries and keep our farmers economically competitive.
S5: Episode 1: Lorenzo Rossi - Inspiring Aggie Horticulturalists
Dr. Lorenzo Rossi joined Texas A&M University in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Horticultural Plant Physiology, with 60% research, 30% teaching, and 10% service appointment. Before joining Texas A&M, he served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at a University of Florida off-campus research center, where he began in 2018 and earned tenure in 2024. Motivated by a desire to work more closely with undergraduate students and collaborate across disciplines in a main ca...
6 Jul 2026
S5: Episode 3: Krishna Bhattarai - Producing the Future of Crops
Krishna Bhattarai is an Assistant Professor of Controlled Environment Plant Breeding at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, based in Dallas, Texas. He leads the Breeding for Controlled Environments program, focused on developing CEA-optimized cultivars through genetic discovery, high-throughput phenotyping, and genome-informed breeding to improve productivity, resilience, and profitability in controlled environmen...
6 Jul 2026
S5: Episode 4: Paul Christou and Teresa Capell - The Art of Science
Dr. Teresa Capell is a Principal Investigator within the Agricultural Biotechnology Group at the UdL, since 2004. She became a full professor in 2011. Dr Capell is also an associate researcher of the CERCA Center, AGROTECNIO. She has been the PI of 5 different national projects since 2004. She discovered and developed a novel approach to engineer complex multistep metabolic pathways in plants exemplified by the creation of a combinatorial transgenic maize population accumulating extraordinary...
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