Featured in Edible New Jersey: Basil Bonanza
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
Breeding
A Plant-Breeding Breakthrough: Downy Mildew Resistant Sweet Basil
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
Catnip
Our catnip breeding recently made news: along with the The Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) CR9, a new breed of catnip with 3x as much enriched oil, was … Read More