Thursday, December 22, 2016

Ashley, took the initiative and cleaned up the -20 chest freezer. Thank you.  

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Our ideal tract farm was inundated by Hurricane Mathew. The photo is taken one day after Matthew made a land fall.


Photos: Courtesy of Mr. Terry  Bland

Friday, July 29, 2016

Friday, July 15, 2016

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Travelling to Portland, Salem, Corvallis, Eugene and Lowell, OR to learn more about blueberry operations in Oregon.





































Friday, June 24, 2016

We had a cool day spending time with 16 teachers from all around North Carolina. The learned about Vaccinium and Rubus Teams at NCSU. They tasted and ranked 12 blueberry cultivars. The also had a chance to extract DNA from blueberry and strawberry. 







Hamid is talking about application of Sage-ELF in this short blog.

https://www.facebook.com/TeamVaccinium/Sage-ELF Blog

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Blueberry family farm day.








Taking Nicole and Ryan to blueberry farm to learn more about different varieties. 
O'Neal was bred and developed jointly by NCSU and USDA. Many growers and nurseries like it due to various reasons. It made everyone well-off. Thanks to Liz Tseng for sending this photo from California.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Team Vaccinium attended to PacBio East Coast User Group Meeting to learn more about new advancements in long read sequencing technology known as PacBio Sequencing. To learn more about this event you may follow the follwoing link. PacBio 2016 User group meeting



Left to right: Ashley Yow, Amanda Hulse-Kemp, George Yuan, Massimo Iorizzo, Hamed Bostan and Hamid Ashrafi


Tuesday, May 31, 2016


The crosses were a success this year. Thanks team Vaccinium. 

Started to collect pollen in Feb 27 and harvested the last fruits on May 31, 2016





Monday, May 30, 2016


"Memorial Day"


“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” — Bill Clinton

Please also visit https://www.facebook.com/TeamVaccinium/ for our team's latest news. You can also explore more about blueberry genetics and genomics lab at NCSU via https://blueberry.cals.ncsu.edu/

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Wednesday, May 18, 2016


Dr. Ballington explains how to extract seed from blueberry fruit.

Part I


Part II



Saturday, March 12, 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

Mr. Ralph Carter is speaking for students about his blueberry farm operations

 Mr. Ralph Carter is speaking for students about his blueberry farm operations
 Students are learning how blueberry harvester works
 Mr. Ralph Carter is answering to the questions that students are asking him.
 A view of blueberry farm (Carter's farm)
The first entry point for blueberries when they arrive to the packing shed. They will be kept at 60°F until they go though soft and color sorter.