Jonathan Schultheis

Area(s) of Expertise

Extension and research responsibilities for vegetable crops. Program emphasis on developing and optimizing cultural practices for commercial production of vegetables. Interestsinclude stand establishment, plasticulture, developing new alternative crops, drip irrigation, nutrition, and seed physiology. Crop emphasis is with sweetpotato and cucurbits.

Publications

• Profiling carotenoid and sugar contents in unique Cucumis melo L. cultigens harvested from different climatic regions of the United States , JOURNAL OF FOOD COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS (2022)
• Cell Wall Polysaccharide Composition of Grafted 'Liberty' Watermelon With Reduced Incidence of Hollow Heart Defect , FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE (2021)
• Grafting watermelon onto interspecific hybrid squash reduces hollow heart disorder , II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON VEGETABLE GRAFTING (2021)
• Non-destructive characterization of grafted tomato root systems using the mini-horhizotron , II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON VEGETABLE GRAFTING (2021)
• Critical timing of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) removal in sweetpotato , WEED TECHNOLOGY (2020)
• Effect of bicyclopyrone herbicide on sweetpotato and Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) , WEED TECHNOLOGY (2020)
• Predicting Hollow Heart Incidence in Triploid Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) , HORTSCIENCE (2020)
• The CucCAP project: leveraging applied genomics to improve disease resistance in cucurbit crops , VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CUCURBITS (2020)
• Vine Removal Prior to Harvest, and Curing Duration and Temperature Affect the Incidence and Severity of Internal Necrosis in 'Covington' Sweetpotato , HORTTECHNOLOGY (2020)
• Effect of rootstock and nitrogen fertilizer on growth and yield in watermelon , JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY (2019)