Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Hammond Lab
Led by William Hammond · Agronomy
What we study
The Hammond Lab studies how plant vascular systems handle extreme conditions like drought. They research traits that help plants survive and develop ways to detect plant stress for better agriculture.
What working here is like
- Plants
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Sparkleberry Rootstocks Confer Drought Avoidance Traits to Grafted Blueberry Plants
2026 · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Tests whether Sparkleberry rootstocks help blueberry plants survive drought.
- Partial coordination of leaf water relations with the leaf economics spectrum across diverse forest types
2026 · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Explores how leaf water relations and carbon economy traits relate across different forest types.
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- A new environmental-based tool to support forest breeders in selecting species adapted to current and near-term climate conditions
2026 · Tree Genetics & Genomes
Develops a tool to help forest breeders select species adapted to current and future climates.
- A river runs through it: intraspecific variability in hotter-drought-related physiological traits across the Mississippi divide in Pinus taeda L
2026 · Tree Physiology
Investigates how Pinus taeda populations vary in traits that help them survive hotter droughts.
- The impact of irrigation scheduling on aflatoxin risk for peanuts using the CSM-CROPGRO-Peanut model
2026 · Agricultural Water Management
Uses a model to study how irrigation affects aflatoxin risk in peanuts across Georgia's soil and climate conditions.
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