Pradip Poudel

I’m Dr. Pradip Poudel, a Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University working at the intersection of controlled-environment agriculture, vegetable production, crop physiology, and plant metabolomics. My research focuses on optimizing soilless and greenhouse production systems, improving resource efficiency, and enhancing the nutritional and metabolic profiles of vegetable and leafy crops in protected as well as field crop production system. I apply crop physiology, advanced analytical tools and data-driven experimental approaches to elucidate how environmental conditions influence plant performance, nutritional quality, and nutrient bioaccessibility.  

Thank you for visiting. I'm always open to collaborations in CEA, sustainable horticulture, and nutritional quality research. 

Research Interests

• Crop physiology and G x E x M interactions
  (includes environmental stress, irrigation, spectral regulation)

• Plant metabolomics, flavor chemistry, and functional quality
  (includes grape and wine chemistry, phytochemicals)

• Nutritional quality, mineral biofortification, and bioaccessibility
  (agronomic Fe/Zn enrichment, human nutrition relevance)

• Seed physiology and vigor assessment

• Controlled environment and soilless production systems
  (CEA, hydroponics, alternative substrates, indoor/urban systems)

• Sustainable vegetable and specialty crop production systems
  (resource-use efficiency, climate resilience)

• Innovative agricultural technologies
  (plasma agriculture and emerging production tools)

• Agrobiodiversity and resilient cropping systems

Get in touch at pmp5548@psu.edu,  agripdl.pradip@gmail.com