Chris Gunter
Director of Graduate Programs, Extension Vegetable Production Specialist and Professor
Academics, Extension, Faculty, Research
Kilgore Hall 230
Area(s) of Expertise
Dr. Gunter is the Vegetable Production Specialist for the commercial vegetable industry in North Carolina, working with commercial vegetable growers to maintain a high quality of life through the use of integrated, economical and environmentally sound production practices. His main emphasis is with the Solanaceous (tomato, pepper) and Cruciferous (cabbage, broccoli) cropping systems.
Publications
- Effect of rootstock and nitrogen fertilizer on growth and yield in watermelon, JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY (2019)
- The effect of grafting on nitrogen use in determinate field-grown tomatoes, JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY (2019)
- Yield and Disease Resistance for Three Bacterial Wilt-resistant Tomato Rootstocks, HORTTECHNOLOGY (2019)
- Comparison of Root System Morphology of Cucurbit Rootstocks for Use in Watermelon Grafting, HORTTECHNOLOGY (2018)
- Estimating on-farm food loss at the field level: A methodology and applied case study on a North Carolina farm, RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING (2018)
- Farm to childcare: An analysis of social and economic values in local food systems, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2018)
- Field measurement in vegetable crops indicates need for reevaluation of on-farm food loss estimates in North America, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS (2018)
- Grafting the Indeterminate Tomato Cultivar Moneymaker onto Multifort Rootstock Improves Cold Tolerance, HORTSCIENCE (2018)
- Integrating grafting and emerging products to manage soilborne diseases of tomato, V INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TOMATO DISEASES: PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TOMATO PROTECTION (2018)
- Rootstock Effect on Grafted Tomato Transplant Shoot and Root Responses to Drying Soils, HORTSCIENCE (2018)
Education
PhD, Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS, Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, Horticulture, Purdue University