Education

B.S., Plant Science, Cook College, Rutgers University, 1976

M.S., Floriculture & Ornamental Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1978

Ph.D., Floriculture & Ornamental Horticulture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1980

Research Interests

The purpose of our lab is to offer training to graduate students (and upper division undergraduate students) in research methods that involve the growing of horticultural and agronomic plants, and the execution complex plant nutrition experiments. We also train undergraduate and graduate students in sectioning and embedding plant material for light and fluorescence microscopy.

Major Project Activities

Controlled Environment Agriculture – whether it's sustainable growing of fruit or medicinal plants in a greenhouse during the winter or identifying nutrient deficiencies using hydroponics, our lab does it! We currently are reviewing all our leaf re-greening after nutrient deficiency efforts to determine our next steps.

On-going projects include winter production of basil for herbage and essential oil as well as identifying nutrient deficiencies across basil varieties. We are also investigating the anatomical origin of oil trichomes on 18 cultivars of basil (pesto and specialty) to determine if size, presence and frequency are related to essential oil production.

Future plans will involve post-harvest physiology of strawberries with a focus on new uses for American's favorite fruit.

Publications

• Adams, S. A., E. T. Paparozzi, R. Pekarek, D. Lambe, G. E. Meyer, M. E. Conley and P. E. Read. 2021. University Research on Winter Growing of Container-Grown Strawberries Translates to Grower’s Farm Trial. Int. J. Fruit Science 21(1):1104-1113. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/agronomyfacpub/1514/
• Paparozzi, E. T., Zhengxiong Li, Erin E. Blankenship & M. Elizabeth Conley. 2021. Purple leaf basil plants express micronutrient deficiencies symptoms differently than green leaf basil plants, J. Plant Nutrition 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/01904167.2021.2014885
• Stewart, Z. P., E. T. Paparozzi, C. S. Wortmann, P. K. Jha, and C. A. Shapiro. 2021. Effect of foliar micronutrients (B, Mn, Fe, Zn) on maize grain yield, micronutrient recovery, uptake and partitioning. Plants 10: 1-26. https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/3/528/pdf
• Stewart, Z., E. T. Paparozzi, C. S. Wortman, P. K. Jha and C. A. Shapiro.2020. Foliar micronutrient application for high-yield maize. Agronomy. Vol. 10 (12):1-18. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/12/1946/htm
• D’Alessio, L.M. Durso, C. Williams, C. A. Olson, C. Ray and E. T. Paparozzi. 2020. Applied injected air into subsurface drip irrigation: Plant uptake of pharmaceuticals and soil microbial communities. J. Environ. Eng. 146(2):06019008 https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001655
• Meyer, G. E., E. T. Paparozzi, Erin Stevens. 2020. Classification of Plant Moisture Conditions Using Canopy and Leaf Temperature Responses to Step Changes of Incident Radiation. ASABE paper 2001085. The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. St. Joseph MI. pp. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/biosysengfacpub/768/
• Paparozzi, E. T. and M. E. Conley. 2020. Basil: A cool twist for a common plant. Greenhouse Grower July 2020.
• Paparozzi, E. T., B. Hitt and D. Lambe. 2019. The readiness report: How confident are your graduating seniors? NACTA 63(2):360-367.
• Kramer, M., E. T. Paparozzi and W.W. Stroup. 2019. Best Practices for Presenting Statistical Information in a Research Article, HortScience 54(9):1605-1609.
• Stewart, Z. P, Ellen T. Paparozzi, M. Djanaguiraman & Charles A. Shapiro. 2019. Lipid-based Fe- and Zn- nanoformulation is more effective in alleviating Fe- and Zn- deficiency in maize, Journal of Plant Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/01904167.2019.1617314
• Ruis, S., H. Blanco-Canqui, E. T. Paparozzi, and R. Zeek. 2019. Using corn stover as an alternative to peat. HortScience 54(2):385-394.
• Xu, Zhuquing, E. T. Paparozzi, E. Walter-Shea and R. K. Sutton. 2018. Green roof microclimate: Patch seeding native prairie plants. J. Living Architecture 5(1):31-48.