Story by SEBS and NJAES Office of Communications and Marketing: The Exotic Pepper Project team of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) announced the release of a … Read More
NUAPP members published in a special issue series of the Journal of Medicinally Active Plants focused on African Indigenous Vegetables. ABSTRACT Spider plant (Cleome gynandra), an herbaceous annual commonly used … Read More
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New article published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research! Abstract Objectives: Raspberry ketone (RK) is the primary aroma compound in red raspberries and a dietary supplement for weight loss. This work … Read More
African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) have recently received wide attention for their contribution toward food and nutrition security. Promoting the production and consumption of AIVs is likely to mitigate food insecurity … Read More
For more than three decades, basil has been a primary focus of [Dr. Jim Simon’s] research. At Rutgers, he oversees one of the world’s most extensive collections of basil from … Read More
Sweet basil is among the most popular and economically important culinary herbs, but by 2010, US production began to feel the impact of a newly emerging destructive disease: basil downy … Read More