Research

Plants and Climate Change

Wild Blueberry Physiology

Plant Structure and Function

Water Transport and Drought

Precision Agriculture

Canopy Physiology

Current research projects

Plants and climate change projects

1) Warming effects on wild blueberries and their interactions with pests

Tasnim et al. 2020; Tasnim et al. 2021; Chen et al., 2022; Tasnim et al., 2022

2) The future of Maine's forest: response of Maine's trees to climate change and drought

van Kampen et al., 2022

3) Plant physiological response to changes in temperature, rainfall, and CO2 concentration

Qi et al., 2022; Schattman et al., 2022

Wild blueberry physiology

1) Wild blueberry phenology in relation to nutrient needs

Tasnim et al., 2022

2) Spatial-temporal variation of wild blueberry water use

Chan et al., 2021, Barai, et al., 2021

3) Photosynthesis, functional traits, and productivity/yield

Tasnim and Zhang, 2021, Barai et al, 2022

4) New technologies in wild blueberry management

Tasnim et al., 2022

Water transport and drought projects

1) Xylem structure and function

Zhang et al., 2022

2) Drought resistance of wild and high bush blueberries

3) Drought resistance of different crop varieties

4) Mechanisms regulating plant drought response

Chen et al., 2020, Shen et al., 2022

Precision Agriculture

1) UAVs and remote sensing in detecting crop stress level

Chan et al., 2021

Canopy physiology

1) Physical and physiological mechanisms regulating diurnal water use of canopy leaves