Agriculture
Date:
07/02/2020
MSI PI Matthew Clark (assistant professor, Horticultural Science) has been named Research Director of the Horticultural Research Center (HRC) at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Professor Clark is an expert in breeding cold-hardy grapes and he uses software available through MSI for genetics and genomics studies that are part of this research.
An announcement about this appointment appears on the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences website: Matt Clark named research director for the Horticultural Research Center at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The HRC develops improved, hardy strains of fruits and woody plants. They have introduced over 100 fruit varieties since 1908.