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

• Response of Triploid Watermelon Cultivars and ‘Carolina Strongback’ Rootstock Grown in Fields Infested with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum in North Carolina and South Carolina , HortScience (2026)
• The USDA-SCRI CucCAP Projects: Building Genomic, Breeding and Disease Management Tools for Cucurbit Crops , Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science (2026)
• 2024 Results for Managing Fusarium Wilt of Watermelon with Fungicides and Grafting in North and South Carolina , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• 2024 Standard Size Watermelon Cultigen Yield and Quality Results for North Carolina , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Canary Melon Yield and Exterior and Internal Quality Results, 2024 , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Chelated Iron as a Safener to Herbicide Treatments Applied 'POST' on 'Covington' Sweetpotato , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Evaluation of Sweetpotato Transplant Orientation Methods and their Effects on Yield and Root Shape , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Recent Developments in Understanding Acrylamide Formation in Fried Sweetpotatoes , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Rotation, Cover Crop, and Fumigation Impacts on Guava Root-Knot Nematode Incidence in Field Studies in 'Covington' Sweetpotato , HORTSCIENCE (2025)
• Rotation, cover crop, and fumigation impacts on guava root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne enterolobii) incidence in field studies in sweetpotato , PHYTOPATHOLOGY (2025)

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