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Dr. Genhua Niu is an Associate Professor in Urban Landscape and Water Conservation at the Texas AgriLife Research Center at El Paso and Department of Horticultural Sciences.  Her areas of special expertise are in environmental stress physiology, plant production in controlled environment, and photoautotrohic micropropagation. Her current research areas include screening drought and salt tolerant low water use plant materials for urban landscape, quantifying growth and physiological responses of crops to drought and salt stresses, and determining the minimum water requirement for urban landscape plants (trees, shrubs, and ground covers) for maintaining a healthy landscape while conserving water.

Dr. Niu received a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Chiba University, Japan.  Prior to joining Texas AgriLife Research, she worked at Michigan State University on ornamental crop production under controlled environment, the USDA-ARS Alternate Crops and Systems Lab on modeling water stress and elevated carbon dioxide concentration effects on corn plant growth and development, and a private company on micropropagation and nursery crop production in South Carolina.

Selected Publications

Niu, G., R. Cabrera, T. Starman, and C. Hall. 2011. Water conservation in ornamental plant production through the use of alternative water sources. HortTechnology 21(6):694-695.

Niu, G., D. Rodriguez, and M. Gu. 2011. Response of Sophora secundiflora to nitrogen form and rate. HortScience 46(9):1303–1307.

Lin, M., T. Starman, Y.T. Wang, G. Niu, and J.T. Cothren. 2011. Deferring flowering of nobile dendrobium hybrids by holding plants under low temperature after vernalization. Scientia Horticulturae 130: 869–873.

Lin, M., T. Starman, Y.T. Wang, and G. Niu. 2011. Light and Cooling Requirement for Vernalization of Three Hybrid Nobile Dendrobium Cultivars. HortScience 46(3):406-410.

Xiao, Y., G. Niu, and T. Kozai. 2011. Development and application of photoautotrophic micropropagation system. Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture 105:149–158.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, E. Call, P. Bosland, A. Ulery, and E. Acosta. 2010. Responses of eight chile peppers to saline water irrigation.  Scientia Horticulturae 126:215–222.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, K. Crosby, D. Leskovar, and J. Jifon. 2010. Rapid screening for relative salt tolerance among chile pepper genotypes. HortScience 45(8):1192–1195.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, R. Cabrera, J. Jifon, D. Leskovar, and K. Crosby. 2010. Salinity and soil type effects on emergence and growth of pepper seedlings. HortScience 45(8):1265–1269.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and M. Gu. 2010. Salinity tolerance of Sophora secundiflora and Cercis canadensis var. Mexicana. HortScience 45(3):424-427.

Miyamoto, S., G. Niu, I. Martinez. 2010. Salinity and specific ion effects on onion establishment in relation to disposal of desalting concentrates. Desalination and Water Treatment 16:381-392.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and T. Starman. 2010. Response of bedding plants to saline water irrigation. HortScience 45(4):628-636.

Niu, G. and R.I. Cabrera. 2010. Growth and physiological responses of landscape plants to saline water irrigation – a review.  HortScience 45(11): 1605-1609.

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